douillet

\du.jɛ\

/\du.jɛ\/ adj

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The verdict

“douillet” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,974. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#25,974
frequency rank, French
5,307
“D” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est moelleux.

Corpus desk

Index FR-douillet · douillet · French

douillet · rank #25,974 · 9 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #25,974
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH dolce

Nearest frequency peer: dolce (-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 « douillet »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « douillet » 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).

douillet vs douilles
88% similar

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

Key facts for douillet
PropertyValue
Headworddouillet
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\du.jɛ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#25,974
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « douillet »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).douilletse place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « dolce » (#25,973), « Duchesne » (#25,975), « dissocier » (#25,972). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « douillet » est au #25,974. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around douillet (IPA \du.jɛ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #25,974 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for douillet, with forms such as "ddouillet", "doiullet", and "douilelt". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "douilles", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 douillet, spelled D-O-U-I-L-L-E-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui est moelleux.
  2. 2
    Qualifie une personne trop délicate, qu’un rien incommode, qui est sensible à la plus légère douleur.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Nous nous prîmes la main, nous marchâmes en silence vers notre lit douillet.
  2. Au Québec, on jappe, mais on ne mord pas. Nous sommes un peuple douillet.

This word in other languages

cozy(English)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ddouillet
  • doiullet
  • douilelt
  • douilet
  • douillett
  • douillte
  • doulilet
  • duoillet
  • oduillet

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

ddouillet1doiullet2douilelt2douilet1douillett1douillte2doulilet2duoillet2
Edit distance from "douillet"

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 "douillet"?
"douillet" is spelled D-O-U-I-L-L-E-T. The IPA pronunciation is \du.jɛ\.
What does "douillet" mean?
As an adjective, "douillet" means: Qui est moelleux.
What words are commonly confused with "douillet"?
"douillet" is commonly confused with "douilles". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "douillet"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "douillet" is \du.jɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "douillet" come from?
"douillet" 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 "douillet", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

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

Duchesne#25,975Dujardin#25,976dépêcher#25,981dépêches#25,982

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

custom9 variantsencadre9 variantsferraille9 variantscahors9 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list