douance
\dwɑ̃s\
The verdict
“douance” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualité d’une personne douée voire surdouée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-douance · douance · French
douance · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "D" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | douance |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dwɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « douance » en français
Rare enough to double-check
douance is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \dwɑ̃s\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qualité d’une personne douée voire surdouée.".
douance doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is douance, spelled D-O-U-A-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Qualité d’une personne douée voire surdouée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how douance appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il faut les comprendre en gardant en tête que la douance n’a que peu à voir avec un chiffre de quotient intellectuel : les tests permettent d’évaluer la douance, ils ne la définissent pas.
Pour une grande majorité des scientifiques, la douance intellectuelle est représentée par un QI supérieur ou égal à 130.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.