redoublement

/\ʁə.du.blə.mɑ̃\/ noun

Letters

12 characters

Frequency Rank

#29,938

in French word usage

Misspellings

18

tracked variants

Confusables

1

similar word pairs

redoublement is aFrenchnoun. It means: Accroissement, augmentation considérable. Pronounced \ʁə.du.blə.mɑ̃\. Often confused with refoulement.

Key facts for redoublement
PropertyValue
Headwordredoublement
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁə.du.blə.mɑ̃\
Letters12
Frequency rank#29,938
Misspellings tracked18
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of redoublement in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for redoublement is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁə.du.blə.mɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #29,938 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 18 documented wrong-spelling variants for redoublement, with forms such as "erdoublement", "rdeoublement", and "reddoublement". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "refoulement", 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 redoublement, spelled R-E-D-O-U-B-L-E-M-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Accroissement, augmentation considérable.
  2. 2
    Augmentation périodique ou irrégulière dans l’intensité des symptômes d’une maladie, et particulièrement des fièvres.
  3. 3
    Dérivation par la répétition complète ou partielle d’un mot ou d’un de ses morphèmes, pour l’emphase, pour le pluriel, etc. Par exemple, foufou est créé par redoublement de fou. Réduplication.
  4. 4
    Dérivation par la répétition complète ou partielle d’un mot ou d’un de ses morphèmes, pour l’emphase, pour le pluriel, etc. Par exemple, foufou est créé par redoublement de fou. Réduplication.
  5. 5
    Fait pour un élève de reprendre le même niveau.
  6. 6
    Le fait de faire figurer plusieurs fois une note dans un accord, à des octaves différentes.
  7. 7
    Le fait d’ajouter une ou plusieurs octaves à un intervalle.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: erdoublement,rdeoublement,reddoublement,redobulement,redoubblement,redoubelment,redoubleemnt,redoublemennt,redoublementt,redoublemetn,redoublemment,redoublemnet,redoubllement,redoublmeent,redoulbement,reduoblement,reodublement,rredoublement

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for redoublement

Misspelling Variants of "redoublement"

erdoublement12rdeoublement12reddoublement13redobulement12redoubblement13redoubelment12redoubleemnt12redoublemennt13
Misspelling Variants of "redoublement"

Frequency rank: #29,938 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "redoublement"?
"redoublement" is spelled R-E-D-O-U-B-L-E-M-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁə.du.blə.mɑ̃\.
What does "redoublement" mean?
As a noun, "redoublement" means: Accroissement, augmentation considérable.
What words are commonly confused with "redoublement"?
"redoublement" is commonly confused with "refoulement". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "redoublement"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "redoublement" is \ʁə.du.blə.mɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "redoublement" come from?
"redoublement" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.