doudou
\du.du\
The verdict
“doudou” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,599. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,599
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Objet procurant un réconfort psychologique à un petit enfant (généralement une couverture ou une peluche).
Corpus desk
Index FR-doudou · doudou · French
doudou · rank #21,599 · 7 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,599
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH donnais
Nearest frequency peer: donnais (-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 « doudou »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- distorsion
distorsion
78,405 corpus weight
- Dolan
Dolan
78,404 corpus weight
- donnais
donnais
78,403 corpus weight
- doudou
doudou
78,402 corpus weight
- drôlement
drôlement
78,401 corpus weight
- dsl
dsl
78,400 corpus weight
What this shows « doudou » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | doudou |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \du.du\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #21,599 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « doudou »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around doudou (IPA \du.du\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,599 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Objet procurant un réconfort psychologique à un petit enfant (généralement une couverture ou une peluche).".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for doudou, with forms such as "ddoudou", "doduou", and "douddou". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "doudoune", "dodo", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is doudou, spelled D-O-U-D-O-U.
Definition
- 1Objet procurant un réconfort psychologique à un petit enfant (généralement une couverture ou une peluche).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how doudou appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Comme d’habitude, elle a apporté un livre qu’elle a soigneusement choisi à la bibliothèque et, surtout, une doudou. À son arrivée dans la classe, une petite fille se lève d’un bond. Sa mamie à temps partiel est arrivée.
La bouffe, la litière, les jouets, la doudou sont de retour.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddoudou
- doduou
- douddou
- douduo
- douodu
- duodou
- odudou
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of doudou - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).