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danger

French, noun/dɑ̃.ʒe/

danger is spelled D-A-N-G-E-R (6 letters) and appears 56 times per million words in written French, the 1,478th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Danger is a French masculine noun meaning “danger” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Ce qui est ordinairement suivi d’un malheur, ou qui expose à une perte, à un dommage, etc”.

What does danger mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinedanger

  2. 2

    masculinejeopardy (danger of loss, harm, or failure)

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Ce qui est ordinairement suivi d’un malheur, ou qui expose à une perte, à un dommage, etc.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of danger

  • dangers plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce danger?

  • /dɑ̃.ʒe/
  • \dɑ̃.ʒe\
  • [dɑ̃.ʒe]

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to danger

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is danger in French?

danger appears 56 times per million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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