douter
\du.te\
The verdict
“douter” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,445. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,445
- frequency rank, French
- 404,891
- “D” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Être dans l’incertitude, n’être pas sûr.
Corpus desk
Index FR-douter · douter · French
douter · rank #5,445 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,445
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 404,891
- PHOTO-FINISH disposer
Nearest frequency peer: disposer (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “douter”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- deviendra
deviendra
94,559 corpus weight
- Dijon
Dijon
94,558 corpus weight
- disposer
disposer
94,557 corpus weight
- douter
douter
94,556 corpus weight
- déplacements
déplacements
94,554 corpus weight
- effectifs
effectifs
94,553 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “douter” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | douter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \du.te\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #5,445 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “douter” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around douter (IPA \du.te\), averb. Corpus frequency is #5,445 among 404,891 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for douter, with forms such as "ddouter", "dotuer", and "douetr". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "douze", "durer", "duper", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is douter, spelled D-O-U-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Être dans l’incertitude, n’être pas sûr.
- 2Être troublé dans sa foi, la mettre en cause, en parlant des dogmes religieux, des opinions philosophiques.
- 3Hésiter, balancer.
- 4Imaginer, penser, croire.
- 5Croire sur quelque apparence, conjecturer, soupçonner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how douter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Toutefois, pas un seul d’entre nous ne douta que nous arriverions à y prendre pied : ce n’était à nos yeux, qu’une question de patience.
Il se rappelait qu’il y avait deux mois à peine que sa mère était morte, et moins que personne il doutait qu’elle ne fût morte empoisonnée.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddouter
- dotuer
- douetr
- douterr
- doutre
- doutter
- duoter
- oduter
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of douter - 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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "douter", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.