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douze

French, number/duz/

douze is spelled D-O-U-Z-E (5 letters) and appears 33 times per million words in written French, the 2,473rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Douze is a French number meaning “twelve” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does douze mean in English?

number

  1. 1

    twelve

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. Onze plus un, adjectif numéral cardinal correspondant au nombre 12. 2. Douzième.

noun: 1. Nombre 12, entier naturel après onze. 2. Chose portant le numéro douze. 3. Douzième jour du mois. 4. Multiple du point typographique, égal à douze points.

noun: 1. Cicéro.

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 douze

  • douzes plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce douze?

  • /duz/
  • \duz\
  • [duz]

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to douze

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is douze in French?

douze appears 33 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).

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