doués

\dwe\

/\dwe\/ adj

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The verdict

“doués” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,248. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#14,248
frequency rank, French
5,307
“D” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de doué.

Corpus desk

Index FR-doues · doués · French

doués · rank #14,248 · 7 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #14,248
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH donneur

Nearest frequency peer: donneur (-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 « doués »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « doués » 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).

doués vs due
40% similar
doués vs dus
60% similar
doués vs doux
60% similar

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

Key facts for doués
PropertyValue
Headworddoués
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\dwe\
Letters5
Frequency rank#14,248
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « doués »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).douésse 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 « donneur » (#14,247), « décomposition » (#14,249), « diffusées » (#14,246). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « doués » est au #14,248. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around doués (IPA \dwe\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #14,248 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de doué.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for doués, with forms such as "ddoués", "doues", and "dousé". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "due", "dus", "doux", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is doués, spelled D-O-U-É-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Masculin pluriel de doué.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Il me semble qu’ils parlent comme des êtres doués d’une prodigieuse capacité à relever les paradoxes, à dénouer les embrouillaminis d’injustices, à mettre à plat les valeurs basiques de notre monde en recherche de sens.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ddoués
  • doues
  • dousé
  • douéss
  • doéus
  • duoés
  • odués

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

ddoués1doues1dousé2douéss1doéus2duoés2odués2
Edit distance from "doués"

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 "doués"?
"doués" is spelled D-O-U-É-S. The IPA pronunciation is \dwe\.
What does "doués" mean?
As an adjective, "doués" means: Masculin pluriel de doué.
What words are commonly confused with "doués"?
"doués" is commonly confused with "due", "dus", "doux". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "doués"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "doués" is \dwe\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "doués" come from?
"doués" 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 "doués", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Daech#14,241Covid#14,237Franz#14,266garer#14,270

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

essaies7 variantsfoutue7 variantshurle7 variantsJorge7 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list