douleurs
\du.lœʁ\
The verdict
“douleurs” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,549. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,549
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de douleur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-douleurs · douleurs · French
douleurs · rank #5,549 · 11 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,549
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH disques
Nearest frequency peer: disques (-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 « douleurs »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- densité
densité
94,455 corpus weight
- dispute
dispute
94,454 corpus weight
- disques
disques
94,453 corpus weight
- douleurs
douleurs
94,452 corpus weight
- débile
débile
94,451 corpus weight
- délais
délais
94,450 corpus weight
What this shows « douleurs » 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 | douleurs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \du.lœʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #5,549 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « douleurs »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around douleurs (IPA \du.lœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,549 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de douleur.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for douleurs, with forms such as "ddouleurs", "dolueurs", and "douelurs". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "douleur", "douceur", "docteurs", and more, 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is douleurs, spelled D-O-U-L-E-U-R-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de douleur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how douleurs appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Goldsmith, l’auteur d’Obermann, Charles Nodier, Maturin, les plus pauvres, les plus souffrants étaient ses dieux ; elle devinait leurs douleurs, elle s’initiait à ces dénûments entremêlés de contemplations célestes, elle y versait les trésors de son cœur ; elle se voyait l’auteur du bien-être matériel de ces artistes, martyrs de leurs facultés.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddouleurs
- dolueurs
- douelurs
- doulerus
- douleurrs
- douleurss
- douleusr
- doulleurs
- douluers
- duoleurs
- oduleurs
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of douleurs - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "douleurs", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).