breakdance
\bʁek.dɛns\
The verdict
“breakdance” is uncommon French (frequency #71,308 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,308
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forme de danse caractérisée par l’acrobatie et souvent associée au hip-hop.
Corpus desk
Index FR-breakdance · breakdance · French
breakdance · rank #71,308 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,308
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH brahmanes
Nearest frequency peer: brahmanes (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « breakdance »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Bourgueil
Bourgueil
28,696 corpus weight
- boutonne
boutonne
28,695 corpus weight
- brahmanes
brahmanes
28,694 corpus weight
- breakdance
breakdance
28,693 corpus weight
- brelan
brelan
28,692 corpus weight
- brocanteur
brocanteur
28,690 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « breakdance » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « breakdance » en français
Rare enough to double-check
breakdance is uncommon French at frequency #71,308 among 4,251 “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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how breakdance appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Par ailleurs, en créant un style inédit exprimé dans le rap, le graff, le tag, le breakdance ou leurs looks, ils gagnent le respect de la communauté et s’opposent aux styles des dominateurs.
C’est dans les cages d’escalier, les parcs, les terrains vagues et les terrains de basket des boroughs pauvres de New York que la breakdance s’est développée au début des années 1970.
Synonyms
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); 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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