dangereuse
\dɑ̃.ʒə.ʁøz\
The verdict
“dangereuse” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,120. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,120
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de l'adjectif dangereux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dangereuse · dangereuse · French
dangereuse · rank #5,120 · 14 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,120
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH constructeur
Nearest frequency peer: constructeur (-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 « dangereuse »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- constituer
constituer
94,883 corpus weight
- constructeur
constructeur
94,882 corpus weight
- dangereuse
dangereuse
94,881 corpus weight
- demandez
demandez
94,880 corpus weight
- devint
devint
94,879 corpus weight
- district
district
94,878 corpus weight
What this shows « dangereuse » 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 | dangereuse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \dɑ̃.ʒə.ʁøz\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #5,120 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « dangereuse »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around dangereuse (IPA \dɑ̃.ʒə.ʁøz\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #5,120 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de l'adjectif dangereux.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for dangereuse, with forms such as "adngereuse", "dagnereuse", and "danegreuse". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "dangereux", "dangerous", "dangereuses", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is dangereuse, spelled D-A-N-G-E-R-E-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de l'adjectif dangereux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dangereuse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est ainsi que l’année dernière, nous avons trouvé plusieurs cadavres de cet insecte autour de spécimens de cette dangereuse espèce rencontrée sur la lisière du bois d’Acoz, où elle s’est spontanéisée depuis quelque vingt ans.
Sur Twitter, le professeur en médecine interne Josh Barocas, dans le Colorado, a critiqué l’attitude dangereuse du chef d’État, qu’il a même qualifiée de « préjudiciable ».
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- adngereuse
- dagnereuse
- danegreuse
- dangeeruse
- dangeresue
- dangereues
- dangereusse
- dangerreuse
- dangeruese
- danggereuse
- dangreeuse
- danngereuse
- ddangereuse
- dnagereuse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dangereuse - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).