Douvres
\duvʁ\
The verdict
“Douvres” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #37,280. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,280
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville et District d’Angleterre situé dans le comté du Kent.
Corpus desk
Index FR-douvres · Douvres · French
Douvres · rank #37,280 · 10 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,280
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Dostoïevski
Nearest frequency peer: Dostoïevski (-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 « Douvres »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- diversifiées
diversifiées
62,724 corpus weight
- dominatrice
dominatrice
62,723 corpus weight
- Dostoïevski
Dostoïevski
62,722 corpus weight
- Douvres
Douvres
62,721 corpus weight
- Downey
Downey
62,720 corpus weight
- dramaturgie
dramaturgie
62,719 corpus weight
What this shows « Douvres » 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 | Douvres |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \duvʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #37,280 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Douvres »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Douvres (IPA \duvʁ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #37,280 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Ville et District d’Angleterre situé dans le comté du Kent.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Douvres, with forms such as "ddouvres", "dourves", and "douvers". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "dures", "doués", "dorés", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Douvres, spelled D-O-U-V-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Ville et District d’Angleterre situé dans le comté du Kent.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Douvres appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les Britanniques ont dû en effet aménager la station de conversion de Sellindge très en retrait de la côte, à environ 17 km de la ville de Douvres.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddouvres
- dourves
- douvers
- douvress
- douvrres
- douvrse
- douvvres
- dovures
- duovres
- oduvres
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Douvres - 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
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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).