danger zone
"danger-zone" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“danger zone” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A specifically hazardous place to be avoided, usually demarcated, such as an area with anti-personnel mines.
Corpus desk
Index EN-danger-zone · danger zone · English
danger zone · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "D" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | danger zone |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “danger zone” in English
Rare enough to double-check
danger zone is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for danger zone, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is danger zone, spelled D-A-N-G-E-R- -Z-O-N-E.
Definition
- 1A specifically hazardous place to be avoided, usually demarcated, such as an area with anti-personnel mines.
- 2The range of temperatures within which bacteria are likely to grow in food.
- 3The genitals.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how danger zone appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
She has danced into the danger zone / When the dancer becomes the dance
The athletic Walker, one of Tottenham's more effective attacking elements with his raids from right-back, made a timely intervention after Rose had been dispossessed and even Aaron Lennon was needed to provide an interception in the danger zone to foil another attempt by the Russians.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.