doubt
\daʊt\
The verdict
“doubt” is uncommon French (frequency #53,905 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,905
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Douter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-doubt · doubt · French
doubt · rank #53,905 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,905
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH doublures
Nearest frequency peer: doublures (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « doubt »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Dorcel
Dorcel
46,099 corpus weight
- dorures
dorures
46,098 corpus weight
- doublures
doublures
46,097 corpus weight
- doubt
doubt
46,096 corpus weight
- Dounia
Dounia
46,095 corpus weight
- Dreal
Dreal
46,094 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « doubt » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | doubt |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \daʊt\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #53,905 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « doubt » en français
Rare enough to double-check
doubt is uncommon French at frequency #53,905 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \daʊt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Douter.".
Zero misspellings are on record for doubt in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is doubt, spelled D-O-U-B-T.
Definition
- 1Douter.
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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