douceur
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,143
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
12
similar word pairs
douceur is aFrenchnoun. It means: Qualité de ce qui est doux ; la chose même qui a cette qualité. Pronounced \du.sœʁ\. It ranks #4,143 in French word frequency. Often confused with douter and douleur.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | douceur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \du.sœʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #4,143 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for douceur is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \du.sœʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,143 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for douceur, with forms such as "ddouceur", "docueur", and "doucceur". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "douter", "douleur", "douteux", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is douceur, spelled D-O-U-C-E-U-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qualité de ce qui est doux ; la chose même qui a cette qualité.
- 2Friandises propres à flatter le goût, sucreries.
- 3Choses morales qui flattent l’âme, l’esprit, comme les substances douces flattent le goût.
- 4Façon d’agir douce et éloignée de toute sorte de violence, modération.
- 5Paroles aimables et particulièrement des compliments qu’un individu adresse à une autre personne pour tâcher de lui plaire, de s’en faire aimer.
- 6Température agréable, chaleur modérée.
- 7Dédommagement qu'on donne à quelqu'un pour reconnaître sa peine.
- 8Qualité d'un matériau à se déformer, à se fissurer sous une contrainte mécanique. (l'inverse se nomme ténacité)
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddouceur,docueur,doucceur,douceru,douceurr,doucuer,douecur,duoceur,oduceur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for douceur
Misspelling Variants of "douceur"
Frequency rank: #4,143 in French
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