dancing
\dɑ̃.siŋ\
The verdict
“dancing” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,762. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,762
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Établissement public conçu pour danser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dancing · dancing · French
dancing · rank #27,762 · 11 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,762
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH césarienne
Nearest frequency peer: césarienne (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « dancing »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Courbevoie
Courbevoie
72,242 corpus weight
- cuillères
cuillères
72,241 corpus weight
- césarienne
césarienne
72,240 corpus weight
- dancing
dancing
72,239 corpus weight
- deck
deck
72,238 corpus weight
- demanderont
demanderont
72,237 corpus weight
What this shows « dancing » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dancing |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dɑ̃.siŋ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #27,762 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « dancing »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around dancing (IPA \dɑ̃.siŋ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,762 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Établissement public conçu pour danser.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for dancing, with forms such as "adncing", "dacning", and "danccing". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "dating", "darling", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is dancing, spelled D-A-N-C-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Établissement public conçu pour danser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dancing appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les Berlinois de la Société ne fréquentent jamais ce dancing vulgaire où la jeunesse brune et les « sous-offs » de la garnison fraternisent.
Deux des Allemands leur ont parlé d’un dancing curieux où l’on trouve des taxi-boys.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- adncing
- dacning
- danccing
- dancign
- dancingg
- dancinng
- dancnig
- danicng
- danncing
- ddancing
- dnacing
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dancing - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "dancing", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).