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danger

dan·ger/ˈdeɪn.d͡ʒɚ/noun

danger is spelled D-A-N-G-E-R: 6 letters and 2 syllables (dan·ger). It appears 39 times per million words in written English, the 2,523rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, danger means “Exposure to likely harm; risk of death or serious injury” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of danger is dangers.

How many letters and syllables are in danger?

Letters6: D-A-N-G-E-R
Syllables2: dan·ger
In writing39 times per million words; the 2,523rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is danger?

Danger appears 39 times per million words in written English, the 2,523rd most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce danger?

  • UK /ˈdeɪn.d͡ʒə/
  • US /ˈdeɪn.d͡ʒɚ/
  • Australia /ˈdæɪn.d͡ʒə/

Danger has 2 syllables, split dan·ger in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-danger.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Naomi_Persephone_Amethyst_(NaomiAmethyst)-danger.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with danger?

4 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as danger from its last stressed vowel (/eɪndʒəɹ/):

Spelled with the same letters in another order: garden, grande, ranged, gander.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of danger

  • dangers plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • dangering participle, present
  • dangered participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does danger mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    Exposure to likely harm; risk of death or serious injury.

    There's plenty of danger in the desert.

  2. 2

    An instance or cause of likely serious harm.

    1st September 1884, William Gladstone, Second Midlothian Speech Two territorial questions […] unsettled […] each of which was a positive danger to the peace of Europe.

  3. 3

    obsoleteMischief.

  4. 4

    The stop indication of a signal (usually in the phrase "at danger").

    The north signal was at danger because of the rockslide.

  5. 5

    obsoleteAbility to harm; someone's dominion or power to harm or penalise. See in one's danger, below.

  6. 6

    obsoleteLiability.

  7. 7

    obsoleteDifficulty; sparingness; hesitation.

  8. 8

    UKderogatoryA contemptible person, especially one seen as perverted or mentally ill.

verb

  1. 1

    obsoleteTo claim liability.

  2. 2

    obsoleteTo imperil; to endanger.

  3. 3

    obsoleteTo run the risk.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Danger in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchdanger, péril (exposure to likely harm)
GermanGefahr (exposure to likely harm), Bedrohung (instance or cause of likely harm)
Portugueseperigo (exposure to likely harm)
Spanishpeligro, discrimen (exposure to likely harm)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does danger come from?

From Middle English daunger (“power, dominion, peril”), from Anglo-Norman dangier, from Old French dangier, alteration of Old French dongier (due to association with Latin damnum (“damage”)) from Vulgar Latin *dominiārium (“authority, power”) from Latin dominus (“lord, master”). Displaced native Old English frēcennes.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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