danza
"danza" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“danza” is uncommon English (frequency #77,577 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,577
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A Puerto Rican music genre associated with ballroom dancing.
Corpus desk
Index EN-danza · danza · English
danza · rank #77,577 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,577
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH cyanogen
Nearest frequency peer: cyanogen (-1 rank slots)
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.
Long-tail ranks near “danza”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- crue
crue
22,428 corpus weight
- cyanogen
cyanogen
22,425 corpus weight
- danza
danza
22,424 corpus weight
- darr
darr
22,423 corpus weight
- Dawe
Dawe
22,422 corpus weight
- Daye
Daye
22,421 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “danza” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | danza |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #77,577 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “danza” in English
Rare enough to double-check
danza is uncommon English at frequency #77,577 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A Puerto Rican music genre associated with ballroom dancing.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for danza in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Spanish danza. Doublet of dance. The correct English form is danza, spelled D-A-N-Z-A.
Definition
- 1A Puerto Rican music genre associated with ballroom dancing.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how danza appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sunday at 2 p.m., a performance of classical Puerto Rican danza music by the Association for Puerto Rican Culture, featuring the pianist Alberto Bird and the singer Thelma Ithier-Sterling.
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish danza. Doublet of dance.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).