douanier
French, noun/dwa.nje/
douanier is spelled D-O-U-A-N-I-E-R (8 letters) and appears 1.3 times per million words in written French, the 27,365th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Douanier is a French masculine noun meaning “customs officer” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does douanier mean in English?
adjective
- 1
customs
union douanière
noun
- 1
masculinecustoms officer
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui se rapporte aux douanes.
noun: 1. Commis de la douane, membre de l'administration des douanes, chargé de la vérification des marchandises qui entrent et sortent d'un pays.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of douanier
- douanière feminine
- douaniers masculine plural
- douanières feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce douanier?
- /dwa.nje/
- \dwa.nje\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is douanier in French?
douanier appears 1.3 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).