douloureux
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,051
in French word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
douloureux is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui cause de la douleur ou qui marque de la douleur. Pronounced \du.lu.ʁø\. It ranks #7,051 in French word frequency. Often confused with douloureuse.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | douloureux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \du.lu.ʁø\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #7,051 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for douloureux is 10 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \du.lu.ʁø\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,051 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for douloureux, with forms such as "ddouloureux", "doluoureux", and "doulloureux". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "douloureuse", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is douloureux, spelled D-O-U-L-O-U-R-E-U-X, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui cause de la douleur ou qui marque de la douleur.
- 2Qualifie les parties du corps, lorsqu’elles deviennent tellement sensibles qu’on n’y saurait toucher sans causer de la douleur.
- 3Qui cause de la peine, du chagrin, de l’affliction.
- 4Qui exprime sa douleur, peiné, chagrin, affligé.
- 5Qui ressent de la douleur.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddouloureux,doluoureux,doulloureux,doulorueux,doulouerux,douloureuxx,doulourexu,doulourreux,doulouruex,douluoreux,douolureux,duoloureux,oduloureux
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for douloureux
Misspelling Variants of "douloureux"
Frequency rank: #7,051 in French
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Nearby French words
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