douanière
\dwa.njɛʁ\
The verdict
“douanière” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,039. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,039
- frequency rank, French
- 404,891
- “D” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Métier de celles chargés par un pays de contrôler ce qui passe (surtout ce qui entre) par sa frontière donc en réprimant les contrebandiers.
Corpus desk
Index FR-douaniere · douanière · French
douanière · rank #27,039 · 12 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,039
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 404,891
- PHOTO-FINISH doi
Nearest frequency peer: doi (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “douanière”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- diabétique
diabétique
72,965 corpus weight
- dissident
dissident
72,964 corpus weight
- doi
doi
72,963 corpus weight
- douanière
douanière
72,962 corpus weight
- durcissement
durcissement
72,961 corpus weight
- déchirent
déchirent
72,960 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “douanière” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | douanière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dwa.njɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #27,039 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “douanière” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around douanière (IPA \dwa.njɛʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,039 among 404,891 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Métier de celles chargés par un pays de contrôler ce qui passe (surtout ce qui entre) par sa frontière donc en réprimant les contrebandiers.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for douanière, with forms such as "ddouanière", "doaunière", and "douainère". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "douaniers", "douanières", "douanier", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is douanière, spelled D-O-U-A-N-I-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Métier de celles chargés par un pays de contrôler ce qui passe (surtout ce qui entre) par sa frontière donc en réprimant les contrebandiers.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddouanière
- doaunière
- douainère
- douaniere
- douanirèe
- douanièer
- douanièrre
- douannière
- douanèire
- dounaière
- duoanière
- oduanière
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of douanière - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "douanière", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.