doutable
\du.tabl\
The verdict
“doutable” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Douteux, dont on peut douter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-doutable · doutable · French
doutable · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "D" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | doutable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \du.tabl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « doutable » en français
Rare enough to double-check
doutable is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \du.tabl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Douteux, dont on peut douter.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for doutable, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented 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 doutable, spelled D-O-U-T-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Douteux, dont on peut douter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how doutable appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La présence du méthane dans l’atmosphère lunaire paraît très doutable car le méthane est instable en présence de l’oxygène libre.
Si au aucun texte, aucun document ne certifie que Maximilien Robespierre lisait l’Ami du Peuple, il semble pourtant peu doutable qu’il n’ait pas parcouru le journal, surtout dans la période d’août 1790 à octobre 1791, ….
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.