douleur
French, noun/du.lœʁ/
douleur is spelled D-O-U-L-E-U-R (7 letters) and appears 41 times per million words in written French, the 2,034th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Douleur is a French feminine noun meaning “pain” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Sensation de souffrance, état pénible produit par un mal physique”.
What does douleur mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininepain
- 2
femininedistress
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Sensation de souffrance, état pénible produit par un mal physique. 2. Peine de l’esprit ou du cœur. 3. Sensation de souffrance qui affecte tant le mental que le corps. 4. (pluriel) Ellipse de douleurs de l’enfantement.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of douleur
- douleurs plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce douleur?
- /du.lœʁ/
- \du.lœʁ\
- [du.lœʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to douleur
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is douleur in French?
douleur appears 41 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).