douteur
\du.tœʁ\
The verdict
“douteur” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne qui est portée à douter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-douteur · douteur · French
douteur · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 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 | douteur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \du.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
douteur is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \du.tœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Personne qui est portée à douter.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for douteur, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is douteur, spelled D-O-U-T-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Personne qui est portée à douter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how douteur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je suis tranquille : les douteurs sérieux ont toujours été et seront toujours la pépinière des croyants sérieux.
Il existe aujourd’hui en France, en Allemagne et dans presque toute l’Europe, des hommes qui ont les mêmes privilèges, et qui pourtant évitent avec soin l’examen des savans et des douteurs.
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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.