danger
\dɑ̃.ʒe\
The verdict
“danger” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,476. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,476
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ce qui est ordinairement suivi d’un malheur, ou qui expose à une perte, à un dommage, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-danger · danger · French
danger · rank #1,476 · 9 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,476
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH député
Nearest frequency peer: député (+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 « danger »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- conférence
conférence
98,528 corpus weight
- cuisine
cuisine
98,527 corpus weight
- danger
danger
98,525 corpus weight
- député
député
98,524 corpus weight
- foi
foi
98,523 corpus weight
- football
football
98,522 corpus weight
What this shows « danger » 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 | danger |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dɑ̃.ʒe\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,476 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « danger »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around danger (IPA \dɑ̃.ʒe\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,476 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Ce qui est ordinairement suivi d’un malheur, ou qui expose à une perte, à un dommage, etc.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for danger, with forms such as "adnger", "dagner", and "danegr". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "danse", "Dante", "diner", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is danger, spelled D-A-N-G-E-R.
Definition
- 1Ce qui est ordinairement suivi d’un malheur, ou qui expose à une perte, à un dommage, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how danger appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Hervé, du reste, s’était précautionné dès le matin contre les inconvénients et contre les dangers d'une conférence nocturne sur une berge écartée, en plein hiver.
J’ai appelé l’attention sur le danger que présentent pour l’avenir d’une civilisation les révolutions qui se produisent dans une ère de déchéance économique; […].
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- adnger
- dagner
- danegr
- dangerr
- dangger
- dangre
- dannger
- ddanger
- dnager
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of danger - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).