doucette
\du.sɛt\
The verdict
“doucette” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne doucette (substantif dérivé de l’adjectif).
Corpus desk
Index FR-doucette · doucette · French
doucette · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "D" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | doucette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \du.sɛt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
doucette is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \du.sɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 8 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for doucette, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is doucette, spelled D-O-U-C-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Personne doucette (substantif dérivé de l’adjectif).
- 2Nom vernaculaire donné aux plantes sauvages du genre des valérianelles, principalement Valerianella locusta, dont on consomme les jeunes pousses en salade. Cultivées, elles se nomment mâche.
- 3Étoffe de soie fine et légère.
- 4Soude de mauvaise qualité.
- 5Variété de pomme.
- 6Variété de raisin très sucré.
- 7Poisson méditerranéen nommé aussi souris de mer.
- 8Boisson légèrement alcoolisée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how doucette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Faire la doucette.
C’est une petite doucette.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.