dang
\daŋ\
The verdict
“dang” is uncommon French (frequency #51,399 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an onomatopoeia. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,399
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Son métallique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dang · dang · French
dang · rank #51,399 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,399
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dancefloor
Nearest frequency peer: dancefloor (-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 « dang »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- deer
deer
48,599 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dang » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « dang » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dang is uncommon French at frequency #51,399 among 5,307 “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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dang appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Zum Wechsel des Kalenderjahrs blühen erstaunliche kulinarische Rituale auf. (...) In Spanien und Südamerika verschluckt man an Silvester zu jedem Glockenschlag eine Weintraube: ding, schluck, dang, schluck, dong, Glück.
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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