doucereux
French, adjective/du.sʁø/
doucereux is spelled D-O-U-C-E-R-E-U-X (9 letters) and appears about once in every 12 million words in written French, the 114,550th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Doucereux is a French adjective meaning “squidgy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui est d’une douceur fade et affectée, en parlant des personnes”.
What does doucereux mean in English?
adjective
- 1
squidgy
- 2
unctuous (profusely polite, especially unpleasantly so and insincerely earnest)
- 3
soft
- 4
sickly sweet
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui est d’une douceur fade et affectée, en parlant des personnes. 2. Se dit d'un aliment qui est doux mais qui a un goût fade et déplaisant.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of doucereux
- doucereuse feminine
- doucereuses feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce doucereux?
- /du.sʁø/
- \du.sʁø\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to doucereux
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is doucereux in French?
doucereux appears about once in every 12 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).