breakdance
\bʁek.dɛns\
The verdict
“breakdance” is uncommon French (frequency #71,308 among 227,490 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,308
- frequency rank, French
- 227,490
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Forme de danse caractérisée par l’acrobatie et souvent associée au hip-hop.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | breakdance |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁek.dɛns\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #71,308 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “breakdance” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
breakdance is uncommon French at frequency #71,308 among 227,490 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bʁek.dɛns\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Forme de danse caractérisée par l’acrobatie et souvent associée au hip-hop.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for breakdance in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is breakdance, spelled B-R-E-A-K-D-A-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Forme de danse caractérisée par l’acrobatie et souvent associée au hip-hop.
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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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Using “breakdance”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is B-R-E-A-K-D-A-N-C-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.