Doubs
\du\
The verdict
“Doubs” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,597. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,597
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Département français de la région administrative de Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, qui porte le numéro 25.
Corpus desk
Index FR-doubs · Doubs · French
Doubs · rank #16,597 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,597
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dormant
Nearest frequency peer: dormant (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Doubs »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- diversion
diversion
83,407 corpus weight
- DL
DL
83,406 corpus weight
- dormant
dormant
83,405 corpus weight
- Doubs
Doubs
83,404 corpus weight
- drew
drew
83,403 corpus weight
- débutants
débutants
83,402 corpus weight
What this shows « Doubs » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Doubs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \du\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #16,597 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Doubs »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Doubs (IPA \du\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #16,597 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Doubs, with forms such as "ddoubs", "dobus", and "doubbs". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "dus", "dub", "doux", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Doubs, spelled D-O-U-B-S.
Definition
- 1Département français de la région administrative de Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, qui porte le numéro 25.
- 2Rivière franco-suisse.
- 3Commune française, située dans le département du Doubs.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Doubs appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le département du Doubs était occupé, pendant la période celtique, par les Séquanes, qui formaient une des plus puissantes confédérations de la Gaule et qui prirent part aux expéditions des Gaulois en Italie et dans la vallée du Danube.
Cécile Gorregues a affiché cette pancarte sur la porte de son cabinet, dans le Doubs.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddoubs
- dobus
- doubbs
- doubss
- dousb
- duobs
- odubs
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Doubs - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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