Which to use
“doutes” and “douves” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #4,748
- “doutes” frequency rank
- #42,833
- “douves” frequency rank
- 47581
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | doutes | douves |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Pluriel de doute. | Pluriel de douve. |
Where the eye mixes doutes and douves
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 5 letters in sequence. doutes and douves follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVVCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Look-alike desk: doutes vs douves
A purely visual mix-up. doutes (\dut\) and douves (\duv\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by a single letter - t in “doutes” becomes v in “douves”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 47581, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
doutes is recorded at frequency rank #4,748, classified as anoun, pronounced \dut\. douves is at rank #42,833, tagged as anoun, pronounced \duv\.
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 47581, this pair ranks #185,833 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of doutes vs douves
Shared letters: deosu. Private to "doutes": t. Private to "douves": v.
"doutes" · 6 letters · shape CVVCVC · "douves" · 6 letters · shape CVVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "doutes" and "douves" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "doutes" vs "douves" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
Eye-level mix-up between "doutes" and "douves" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "doutes" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "douves" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #185,833 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "doutes" and "douves" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "douées vs douves". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #185,833 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.