dancehall
\dɛns.ol\
The verdict
“dancehall” is uncommon French (frequency #54,516 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,516
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Genre musical apparu à la fin des années 1970 en Jamaïque, issu du reggae, caractérisé par des sons répétitifs.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dancehall · dancehall · French
dancehall · rank #54,516 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,516
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Daley
Nearest frequency peer: Daley (-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 « dancehall »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cyberattaque
cyberattaque
45,488 corpus weight
- cymbales
cymbales
45,487 corpus weight
- Daley
Daley
45,486 corpus weight
- dancehall
dancehall
45,485 corpus weight
- Dardanelles
Dardanelles
45,484 corpus weight
- dass
dass
45,483 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dancehall » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dancehall |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dɛns.ol\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #54,516 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dancehall » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dancehall is uncommon French at frequency #54,516 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dɛns.ol\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for dancehall in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is dancehall, spelled D-A-N-C-E-H-A-L-L.
Definition
- 1Genre musical apparu à la fin des années 1970 en Jamaïque, issu du reggae, caractérisé par des sons répétitifs.
- 2Salle de danse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dancehall appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
35 professeurs spécialisés en salsa, bachata, dancehall ou hip-hop venant du monde entier dispensent en journée des cours aux adultes, aux enfants et pour la première fois cette année, aux seniors
Mais c’était très dancehall, ce n’était pas du rap.
Synonyms
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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