douville
\du.vil\
The verdict
“douville” is uncommon French (frequency #81,072 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,072
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variété de poire d’automne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-douville · douville · French
douville · rank #81,072 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,072
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dopant
Nearest frequency peer: dopant (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « douville »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dissymétrie
dissymétrie
18,932 corpus weight
- Dniepr
Dniepr
18,931 corpus weight
- dopant
dopant
18,930 corpus weight
- douville
douville
18,929 corpus weight
- drom
drom
18,927 corpus weight
- duca
duca
18,926 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « douville » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | douville |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \du.vil\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #81,072 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « douville » en français
Rare enough to double-check
douville is uncommon French at frequency #81,072 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \du.vil\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variété de poire d’automne.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for douville, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is douville, spelled D-O-U-V-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Variété de poire d’automne.
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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