douillette
\du.jɛt\
The verdict
“douillette” is uncommon French (frequency #75,610 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,610
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Femme douillette.
Corpus desk
Index FR-douillette · douillette · French
douillette · rank #75,610 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,610
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dori
Nearest frequency peer: dori (-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 « douillette »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- distinguaie…
distinguaient
24,394 corpus weight
- dori
dori
24,392 corpus weight
- douillette
douillette
24,391 corpus weight
- Doyon
Doyon
24,390 corpus weight
- drachmes
drachmes
24,389 corpus weight
- dragan
dragan
24,388 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « douillette » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | douillette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \du.jɛt\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #75,610 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « douillette » en français
Rare enough to double-check
douillette is uncommon French at frequency #75,610 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \du.jɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for douillette, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is douillette, spelled D-O-U-I-L-L-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Femme douillette.
- 2Vêtement ordinairement de drap ouaté, porté surtout par les ecclésiastiques, qui le mettent par-dessus les autres, en hiver.
- 3Sorte de petit fauteuil à bras.
- 4Couette.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how douillette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Faire la douillette.
C’est une douillette.
This word in other languages
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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