douteuse
\du.tøz\
The verdict
“douteuse” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,909. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,909
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Femme qui est portée à douter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-douteuse · douteuse · French
douteuse · rank #14,909 · 10 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,909
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH distinctions
Nearest frequency peer: distinctions (-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 « douteuse »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Descartes
Descartes
85,096 corpus weight
- DG
DG
85,095 corpus weight
- distinctions
distinctions
85,093 corpus weight
- douteuse
douteuse
85,092 corpus weight
- découpage
découpage
85,090 corpus weight
- décourager
décourager
85,089 corpus weight
What this shows « douteuse » 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 | douteuse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \du.tøz\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #14,909 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « douteuse »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around douteuse (IPA \du.tøz\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,909 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Femme qui est portée à douter.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for douteuse, with forms such as "ddouteuse", "dotueuse", and "douetuse". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "douteux", "douteuses", "doutes", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is douteuse, spelled D-O-U-T-E-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Femme qui est portée à douter.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddouteuse
- dotueuse
- douetuse
- doutesue
- douteues
- douteusse
- doutteuse
- doutuese
- duoteuse
- oduteuse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of douteuse - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "douteuse", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).