doux
French, adjective/du/
doux is spelled D-O-U-X (4 letters) and appears 35 times per million words in written French, the 2,320th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Doux is a French adjective meaning “sweet” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Agréable au toucher”.
What does doux mean in English?
adjective
- 1
sweet
- 2
soft
- 3
mild
- 4
gentle (gradual rather than steep)
une pente douce
- 5
fresh, not salty (of water)
adverb
- 1
gently
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Agréable au toucher. 2. D’une saveur peu prononcée, ni acide, ni amer, ni piquante. Se dit aussi d’une saveur crémeuse et à la texture soyeuse. 3. Agréable à entendre, ni heurté, ni fort. 4. Pour une eau, à teneur faible en minéraux, en particulier le sel.
noun: 1. Caractère de ce qui est doux, douceur.
adverb: 1. Doucement. Ne s’utilise guère que dans les locutions « filer doux » et « tout doux ».
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of doux
- douce feminine
- douces feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce doux?
- /du/
- \du\
- [du]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to doux
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is doux in French?
doux appears 35 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).