dang
\daŋ\
The verdict
“dang” is uncommon French (frequency #51,399 among 404,891 “D” headwords), classed as an onomatopoeia. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,399
- frequency rank, French
- 404,891
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Son métallique.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dang |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Onomatopoeia |
| IPA | \daŋ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #51,399 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “dang” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
dang is uncommon French at frequency #51,399 among 404,891 “D” headwords, classed as anonomatopoeia, transcribed \daŋ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Son métallique.".
Zero misspellings are on record for dang in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is dang, spelled D-A-N-G.
Definition
- 1Son métallique.
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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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is D-A-N-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.