doudoune

\du.dun\

/\du.dun\/ noun

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The verdict

“doudoune” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,133. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#30,133
frequency rank, French
5,307
“D” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Veste matelassée pour protéger du froid, généralement garnie de duvet.

Corpus desk

Index FR-doudoune · doudoune · French

doudoune · rank #30,133 · 10 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #30,133
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH dorme

Nearest frequency peer: dorme (-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 « doudoune »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « doudoune » 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).

doudoune vs doudou
75% similar
doudoune vs Dordogne
63% similar

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

Key facts for doudoune
PropertyValue
Headworddoudoune
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\du.dun\
Letters8
Frequency rank#30,133
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « doudoune »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.doudounese place ici:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « dorme » (#30,132), « dude » (#30,134), « donnerons » (#30,131). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « doudoune » est au #30,133. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around doudoune (IPA \du.dun\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #30,133 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for doudoune, with forms such as "ddoudoune", "doduoune", and "douddoune". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "doudou", "Dordogne", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is doudoune, spelled D-O-U-D-O-U-N-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Veste matelassée pour protéger du froid, généralement garnie de duvet.
  2. 2
    Sein. — Note d’usage : Dans cet emploi, s’utilise principalement au pluriel.
  3. 3
    Chiffon, couverture, peluche dont un jeune enfant ne se sépare pas, qu’il suce, qui lui sert de protection ou de substitut affectif.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Seul Nabil la suivit des yeux et la vit faire demi-tour, dégager sa main de sous la doudoune de la petite, armée d’un Sig Sauer automatique.
  2. Moi, ce jour-là, je portais une doudoune noire en coton ouaté, comme celle des détenus dans les camps ou des soldats dans un bataillon de construction, la troupe la moins prestigieuse de l'armée.

This word in other languages

down jacket(English)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ddoudoune
  • doduoune
  • douddoune
  • doudonue
  • doudouen
  • doudounne
  • douduone
  • douodune
  • duodoune
  • odudoune

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of doudoune - 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.

ddoudoune1doduoune2douddoune1doudonue2doudouen2doudounne1douduone2douodune2
Edit distance from "doudoune"

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 "doudoune"?
"doudoune" is spelled D-O-U-D-O-U-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \du.dun\.
What does "doudoune" mean?
As a noun, "doudoune" means: Veste matelassée pour protéger du froid, généralement garnie de duvet.
What words are commonly confused with "doudoune"?
"doudoune" is commonly confused with "doudou", "Dordogne". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "doudoune"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "doudoune" is \du.dun\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "doudoune" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

Dufresne#30,136divisant#30,128effacent#30,140Delaunay#30,124

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

emménage10 variantsennuyeuse10 variantscivisme10 variantsfutiles10 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list