douceurs

\du.sœʁ\

/\du.sœʁ\/ noun

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The verdict

“douceurs” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,521. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#28,521
frequency rank, French
5,307
“D” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
6
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de douceur.

Corpus desk

Index FR-douceurs · douceurs · French

douceurs · rank #28,521 · 11 variants · 6 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #28,521
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH doublés

Nearest frequency peer: doublés (-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 « douceurs »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « douceurs » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

douceurs vs douleur
75% similar
douceurs vs douleurs
88% similar
douceurs vs douces
75% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for douceurs
PropertyValue
Headworddouceurs
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\du.sœʁ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#28,521
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « douceurs »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).douceursse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « doublés » (#28,520), « Draguignan » (#28,522), « doser » (#28,519). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « douceurs » est au #28,521. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around douceurs (IPA \du.sœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #28,521 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de douceur.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for douceurs, with forms such as "ddouceurs", "docueurs", and "doucceurs". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "douleur", "douleurs", "douces", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is douceurs, spelled D-O-U-C-E-U-R-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de douceur.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how douceurs appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Il a couru d’un trottoir à l’autre, un clodard en cyclo a fait une embardée pour ne pas l’embugner et s’est ramassé en hurlant des douceurs en arabe.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ddouceurs
  • docueurs
  • doucceurs
  • doucerus
  • douceurrs
  • douceurss
  • douceusr
  • doucuers
  • douecurs
  • duoceurs
  • oduceurs

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of douceurs - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

ddouceurs1docueurs2doucceurs1doucerus2douceurrs1douceurss1douceusr2doucuers2
Edit distance from "douceurs"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "douceurs"?
"douceurs" is spelled D-O-U-C-E-U-R-S. The IPA pronunciation is \du.sœʁ\.
What does "douceurs" mean?
As a noun, "douceurs" means: Pluriel de douceur.
What words are commonly confused with "douceurs"?
"douceurs" is commonly confused with "douleur", "douleurs", "douces". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "douceurs"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "douceurs" is \du.sœʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "douceurs" come from?
"douceurs" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "douceurs", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

déformer#28,526Eastwood#28,532effrayée#28,534creation#28,503

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

doublés11 variantscoquines11 variantscompilé11 variantsfâcheux11 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list