Douglas
\du.ɡlas\
The verdict
“Douglas” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,034. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,034
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cul-de-sac de Douglas.
Corpus desk
Index FR-douglas · Douglas · French
Douglas · rank #11,034 · 10 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,034
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH drama
Nearest frequency peer: drama (+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 « Douglas »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- descriptions
descriptions
88,971 corpus weight
- desquels
desquels
88,970 corpus weight
- diabète
diabète
88,969 corpus weight
- Douglas
Douglas
88,967 corpus weight
- drama
drama
88,966 corpus weight
- dynamiques
dynamiques
88,965 corpus weight
What this shows « Douglas » 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 | Douglas |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \du.ɡlas\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #11,034 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Douglas »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Douglas (IPA \du.ɡlas\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,034 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 Douglas, with forms such as "ddouglas", "dogulas", and "dougals". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "douala", "doublés", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Douglas, spelled D-O-U-G-L-A-S.
Definition
- 1Cul-de-sac de Douglas.
- 2Sapin de Douglas.
- 3Avion de la marque Douglas.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Douglas appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On réalisera aussi une échographie qui pourra soit être normale soit retrouver un épanchement dans le Douglas, des ovaires dystrophiques, des images évocatrices d’hydrosalpinx.
En présence d’un envahissement du Douglas plus ou moins étendu à la face antérieure du rectum, une pelvectomie postérieure extra-péritonéale répond aux exigences oncologiques.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddouglas
- dogulas
- dougals
- dougglas
- douglass
- dougllas
- douglsa
- doulgas
- duoglas
- oduglas
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Douglas - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Douglas", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).