Which to use
“douée” and “douées” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #15,357
- “douée” frequency rank
- #46,709
- “douées” frequency rank
- 62066
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | douée | douées |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Féminin singulier de doué. | Féminin pluriel de doué. |
Same sound, different letters: douée vs douées
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 5 letters. douée runs 5 letters (CVVVV) against douées's 6 (CVVVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - douée and douées
This is the hard kind. douée and douées are pronounced identically (\dwe\) and both work as anadjective. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “douée” sits inside “douées”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 62066, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
douée is recorded at frequency rank #15,357, classified as anadj, pronounced \dwe\. douées is at rank #46,709, tagged as anadj, pronounced \dwe\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 62066, this pair ranks #89,017 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of douée vs douées
Shared letters: deoué. Private to "douée": -. Private to "douées": s.
"douée" · 5 letters · shape CVVVV · "douées" · 6 letters · shape CVVVVC
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "douée" for "douées" ever safe?
In ordinary French text, does "douée" or "douées" show up more?
What to do next
"douée" and "douées" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "douée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "douées" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #89,017 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "douée" and "douées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Dombes vs douées". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #89,017 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.