doudounes
\du.dun\
The verdict
“doudounes” is uncommon French (frequency #65,872 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,872
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de doudoune.
Corpus desk
Index FR-doudounes · doudounes · French
doudounes · rank #65,872 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,872
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dorade
Nearest frequency peer: dorade (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « doudounes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Donatien
Donatien
34,132 corpus weight
- dopants
dopants
34,131 corpus weight
- dorade
dorade
34,130 corpus weight
- doudounes
doudounes
34,129 corpus weight
- draguent
draguent
34,128 corpus weight
- drains
drains
34,127 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « doudounes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | doudounes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \du.dun\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #65,872 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « doudounes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
doudounes is uncommon French at frequency #65,872 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \du.dun\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de doudoune.".
doudounes doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is doudounes, spelled D-O-U-D-O-U-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de doudoune.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how doudounes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Environ 3 300 doudounes vont être distribuées aux personnes sans abri par le Samu social de Paris, lors de maraudes organisées conjointement avec des associations qui viennent régulièrement en aide à cette population.
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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