dancefloor
\dɛns.flɔʁ\
The verdict
“dancefloor” is uncommon French (frequency #51,398 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,398
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Piste de danse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dancefloor · dancefloor · French
dancefloor · rank #51,398 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,398
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Damour
Nearest frequency peer: Damour (-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 « dancefloor »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- célérité
célérité
48,607 corpus weight
- céréaliers
céréaliers
48,606 corpus weight
- Cîteaux
Cîteaux
48,605 corpus weight
- Damour
Damour
48,604 corpus weight
- dancefloor
dancefloor
48,603 corpus weight
- dang
dang
48,602 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dancefloor » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dancefloor |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dɛns.flɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #51,398 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dancefloor » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dancefloor is uncommon French at frequency #51,398 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dɛns.flɔʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Piste de danse.".
No misspelling variants are generated for dancefloor in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is dancefloor, spelled D-A-N-C-E-F-L-O-O-R.
Definition
- 1Piste de danse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dancefloor appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il arrive toutefois que la couleur du dernier bulletin dans l’urne affleure sur le coin du zinc ou en marge du dancefloor.
Son premier disque Cheese a été très remarqué grâce, dans un premier temps, à un tube, Alors on danse, qui a enflammé les dancefloors.
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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