douzaine
\du.zɛn\
The verdict
“douzaine” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,812. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,812
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Douze ou à peu près douze.
Corpus desk
Index FR-douzaine · douzaine · French
douzaine · rank #6,812 · 10 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,812
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH divisé
Nearest frequency peer: divisé (-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 « douzaine »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- disaient
disaient
93,193 corpus weight
- disparaît
disparaît
93,191 corpus weight
- divisé
divisé
93,190 corpus weight
- douzaine
douzaine
93,189 corpus weight
- décennie
décennie
93,188 corpus weight
- démon
démon
93,187 corpus weight
What this shows « douzaine » 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 | douzaine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \du.zɛn\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #6,812 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « douzaine »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around douzaine (IPA \du.zɛn\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,812 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for douzaine, with forms such as "ddouzaine", "douazine", and "douzaien". 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, "douzaines", "douane", "domaine", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is douzaine, spelled D-O-U-Z-A-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Douze ou à peu près douze.
- 2Nombre indéterminé, mais qui n’est pas considérable.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how douzaine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— M’apportes-tu seulement douze douzaines de messes à un écu chacune, ou garderas-tu toujours pour toi seul l’or que te versent à flots tes dévotes de province, vieux pingre ?
La douzaine d’otages est prête : il y en a même treize. Rien que des domestiques stylés de la guerre et tout enfant qui crie quand le canon tonne est giflé.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddouzaine
- douazine
- douzaien
- douzainne
- douzanie
- douziane
- douzzaine
- dozuaine
- duozaine
- oduzaine
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of douzaine - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "douzaine", 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).