doudous
\du.du\
The verdict
“doudous” is uncommon French (frequency #57,878 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,878
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de doudou.
Corpus desk
Index FR-doudous · doudous · French
doudous · rank #57,878 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,878
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH diverge
Nearest frequency peer: diverge (-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 « doudous »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dissocie
dissocie
42,126 corpus weight
- distrib
distrib
42,125 corpus weight
- diverge
diverge
42,124 corpus weight
- doudous
doudous
42,123 corpus weight
- draconiennes
draconiennes
42,122 corpus weight
- droitière
droitière
42,121 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « doudous » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | doudous |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \du.du\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #57,878 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « doudous » en français
Rare enough to double-check
doudous is uncommon French at frequency #57,878 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \du.du\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de doudou.".
No misspelling variants are generated for doudous in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 doudous, spelled D-O-U-D-O-U-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de doudou.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how doudous appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’aère, m’habille, fais manger les doudous, m’occupe de mes toilettes et de celles de Luna, fais un tour de crottes qui n’est pas du luxe pour désencrotter le jardin.
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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