Dubois
\dy.bwa\
The verdict
“Dubois” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,155. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,155
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille français.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dubois · Dubois · French
Dubois · rank #9,155 · 8 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,155
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH doyen
Nearest frequency peer: doyen (-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 « Dubois »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- doses
doses
90,849 corpus weight
- douces
douces
90,848 corpus weight
- doyen
doyen
90,847 corpus weight
- Dubois
Dubois
90,846 corpus weight
- démissionner
démissionner
90,845 corpus weight
- département…
départementale
90,844 corpus weight
What this shows « Dubois » 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 | Dubois |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \dy.bwa\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #9,155 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Dubois »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Dubois (IPA \dy.bwa\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #9,155 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille français.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Dubois, with forms such as "dbuois", "ddubois", and "dubbois". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "duos", "Dupuis", "Dubosc", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Dubois, spelled D-U-B-O-I-S.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille français.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Dubois appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sa tête est partagée en deux. Il y a une moitié qui ne cesse de répéter : « Gaston Dubois, tu es stupide. Tu as soixante-dix ans et tu parles à une charrette exactement comme un gosse de quatre ans parlerait à son train mécanique. »
Puis des dramaturges apparaissent, Normand Chaurette, René-Daniel Dubois, Michel Marc Bouchard, qui écrivent une langue déjoualisée, allant vers d’autres mondes ; l’Ailleurs et l’Étranger se profilent dans le paysage dramaturgique.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- dbuois
- ddubois
- dubbois
- dubios
- duboiss
- dubosi
- duobis
- udbois
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Dubois - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).