doula
\du.la\
The verdict
“doula” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Personne, qui fournit un accompagnement, une information et un soutien aux futures mères et à leur entourage durant la grossesse, l’accouchement et la période postnatale. C'est une activité de serv...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | doula |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \du.la\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “doula” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for doula is 5 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \du.la\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No generated misspelling entries exist for doula in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 doula, spelled D-O-U-L-A.
Definition
- 1Personne, qui fournit un accompagnement, une information et un soutien aux futures mères et à leur entourage durant la grossesse, l’accouchement et la période postnatale. C'est une activité de service à la personne.
- 2Professionnel fournissant accompagnement et soutien lors de grandes étapes de la vie, hors du domaine de la périnatalité : puberté, préconception, PMA, grossesse, avortement, fausse-couche, deuil périnatal, adoption, ménopause, deuil, fin de vie, ...
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “doula”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is D-O-U-L-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \du.la\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.