doutant
\du.tɑ̃\
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
- dominaient
dominaient
50,400 corpus weight
- Donaldson
Donaldson
50,399 corpus weight
- donniez
donniez
50,398 corpus weight
- doutant
doutant
50,397 corpus weight
- dray
dray
50,396 corpus weight
- dundee
dundee
50,395 corpus weight
What this shows « doutant » 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 | doutant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \du.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #49,604 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « doutant »
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
- 1Personne qui doute.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how doutant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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 "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).