douanier
\dwa.nje\
The verdict
“douanier” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,409. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,409
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui se rapporte aux douanes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-douanier · douanier · French
douanier · rank #27,409 · 10 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,409
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH divorcée
Nearest frequency peer: divorcée (-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 « douanier »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- distractions
distractions
72,595 corpus weight
- div
div
72,594 corpus weight
- divorcée
divorcée
72,593 corpus weight
- douanier
douanier
72,592 corpus weight
- doucher
doucher
72,591 corpus weight
- dumping
dumping
72,590 corpus weight
What this shows « douanier » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | douanier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \dwa.nje\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #27,409 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « douanier »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around douanier (IPA \dwa.nje\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #27,409 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui se rapporte aux douanes.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for douanier, with forms such as "ddouanier", "doaunier", and "douainer". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "douaniers", "douanière", "douanières", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is douanier, spelled D-O-U-A-N-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Qui se rapporte aux douanes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how douanier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les formalités douanières ne peuvent être accomplies que dans les bureaux de douane.
L’acte d’Algésiras, en créant un comité des douanes et une commission des valeurs douanières, édictait un règlement douanier et des tarifs nouveaux et ordonnait toutes les mesures propres à contrecarrer la fraude et la contrebande.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddouanier
- doaunier
- douainer
- douaneir
- douanierr
- douanire
- douannier
- dounaier
- duoanier
- oduanier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of douanier - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "douanier", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).