doutant

\du.tɑ̃\

/\du.tɑ̃\/ noun

The verdict

“doutant” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #49,604. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#49,604
frequency rank, French
5,307
“D” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
14
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne qui doute.

Corpus desk

Index FR-doutant · doutant · French

doutant · rank #49,604 · 10 variants · 14 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #49,604
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH donniez

Nearest frequency peer: donniez (-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 « doutant »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « doutant » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

doutant vs durant
71% similar
doutant vs doutent
86% similar
doutant vs datant
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for doutant
PropertyValue
Headworddoutant
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\du.tɑ̃\
Letters7
Frequency rank#49,604
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs14
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « doutant »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).doutantse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « donniez » (#49,603), « dray » (#49,605), « Donaldson » (#49,602). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « doutant » est au #49,604. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around doutant (IPA \du.tɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #49,604 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Personne qui doute.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for doutant, with forms such as "ddoutant", "dotuant", and "douatnt". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 14 confusable-pair relationships, "durant", "doutent", "datant", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is doutant, spelled D-O-U-T-A-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Personne qui doute.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how doutant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Je ne crois pas qu’il y ait deux hommes au monde plus incapables de s’entendre qu’un croyant et un doutant, quand ils se trouvent en face l’un de l’autre, quelles que soient leur bonne foi et même leur intelligence. Ils parlent deux langues inintelligibles, si la grâce de dieu n’intervient entre eux comme interprète.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ddoutant
  • dotuant
  • douatnt
  • doutannt
  • doutantt
  • doutatn
  • doutnat
  • douttant
  • duotant
  • odutant

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of doutant - 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.

ddoutant1dotuant2douatnt2doutannt1doutantt1doutatn2doutnat2douttant1
Edit distance from "doutant"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "doutant"?
"doutant" is spelled D-O-U-T-A-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \du.tɑ̃\.
What does "doutant" mean?
As a noun, "doutant" means: Personne qui doute.
What words are commonly confused with "doutant"?
"doutant" is commonly confused with "durant", "doutent", "datant". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "doutant"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "doutant" is \du.tɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "doutant" come from?
"doutant" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "doutant", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list