dances
\ˈdan.θes\
The verdict
“dances” is uncommon French (frequency #78,318 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,318
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier (tú) du présent du subjonctif de danzar.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dances · dances · French
dances · rank #78,318 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,318
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH danis
Nearest frequency peer: danis (+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 « dances »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cyclomoteur
cyclomoteur
21,686 corpus weight
- cyclotron
cyclotron
21,685 corpus weight
- dances
dances
21,683 corpus weight
- danis
danis
21,682 corpus weight
- dards
dards
21,681 corpus weight
- darla
darla
21,680 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dances » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dances |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈdan.θes\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #78,318 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dances » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dances is uncommon French at frequency #78,318 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈdan.θes\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Deuxième personne du singulier (tú) du présent du subjonctif de danzar.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for dances in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is dances, spelled D-A-N-C-E-S.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier (tú) du présent du subjonctif de danzar.
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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