douane

\dwan\

/\dwan\/ noun

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The verdict

“douane” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,566. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#11,566
frequency rank, French
5,307
“D” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Administration chargée de percevoir à la frontière les droits imposés sur l’entrée et la sortie des marchandises et de veiller à ce que les importations ou les exportations prohibées n’aient pas lieu.

Corpus desk

Index FR-douane · douane · French

douane · rank #11,566 · 7 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #11,566
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH dominer

Nearest frequency peer: dominer (-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 « douane »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « douane » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

douane vs doute
67% similar
douane vs douce
67% similar
douane vs douze
67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for douane
PropertyValue
Headworddouane
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\dwan\
Letters6
Frequency rank#11,566
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « douane »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).douanese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « dominer » (#11,565), « dynamisme » (#11,567), « dion » (#11,564). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « douane » est au #11,566. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around douane (IPA \dwan\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,566 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for douane, with forms such as "ddouane", "doaune", and "douaen". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "doute", "douce", "douze", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is douane, spelled D-O-U-A-N-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Administration chargée de percevoir à la frontière les droits imposés sur l’entrée et la sortie des marchandises et de veiller à ce que les importations ou les exportations prohibées n’aient pas lieu.
  2. 2
    Le lieu, l’édifice où une douane est établie.
  3. 3
    Droits de douane.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how douane appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. […] et dont la vanité, l’amour-propre ont l’exigence et les taquineries d’une douane âpre à percevoir ses droits sur tout ce qui passe à sa portée.
  2. Les envois de coco sont soumis, tu penses bien, à la douane qui les transmet aux postes frontières, pour l'exportation.

This word in other languages

customs(English)aduana(Español)Zoll(Deutsch)alfândega(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ddouane
  • doaune
  • douaen
  • douanne
  • dounae
  • duoane
  • oduane

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of douane - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

ddouane1doaune2douaen2douanne1dounae2duoane2oduane2
Edit distance from "douane"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "douane"?
"douane" is spelled D-O-U-A-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \dwan\.
What does "douane" mean?
As a noun, "douane" means: Administration chargée de percevoir à la frontière les droits imposés sur l’entrée et la sortie des marchandises et de veiller à ce que les importations ou les exportations prohibées n’aient pas lieu.
What words are commonly confused with "douane"?
"douane" is commonly confused with "doute", "douce", "douze". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "douane"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "douane" is \dwan\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "douane" come from?
"douane" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "douane", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Dennis#11,561corpus#11,554escale#11,580fictif#11,584

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

déçus7 variantschoux7 variantsFreud7 variantsaurore7 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list