doux
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,316
in French word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
doux is anFrenchadj. It means: Agréable au toucher. Pronounced \du\. It ranks #2,316 in French word frequency. Often confused with du and dur.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | doux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \du\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #2,316 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for doux is 4 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \du\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,316 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 13 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for doux, with forms such as "ddoux", "douxx", and "doxu". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "du", "dur", "duc", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is doux, spelled D-O-U-X, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Agréable au toucher.
- 2D’une saveur peu prononcée, ni acide, ni amer, ni piquante. Se dit aussi d’une saveur crémeuse et à la texture soyeuse.
- 3Agréable à entendre, ni heurté, ni fort.
- 4Pour une eau, à teneur faible en minéraux, en particulier le sel.
- 5Sucré, en évoquant une nourriture, ou une boisson.
- 6Apportant du réconfort, du bien-être.
- 7Qui n’a rien de fatigant.
- 8Qualifie une consonne sonore, qui n’est pas sourde.
- 9D’un caractère affable et conciliant.
- 10Peu pénible, peu difficile à supporter, à endurer, à observer, qui n’est pas imposé ou infligé avec trop de rigueur.
- 11Qui est de température tiède.
- 12Qui se plie aisément sans se casser.
- 13Qualifie une eau dont la teneur en ions calcium et magnésium reste en dessous d’un certain seuil, lequel peut varier selon les normes en vigueur dans chaque pays.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddoux,douxx,doxu,duox,odux
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for doux
Misspelling Variants of "doux"
Frequency rank: #2,316 in French
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