dangereux
\dɑ̃ʒ.ʁø\
The verdict
“dangereux” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,657. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,657
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui met en danger, qui expose à un danger ; ou simplement, qui est nuisible, pernicieux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dangereux · dangereux · French
dangereux · rank #1,657 · 13 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,657
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH conséquences
Nearest frequency peer: conséquences (-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 « dangereux »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cheval
cheval
98,347 corpus weight
- client
client
98,346 corpus weight
- conséquences
conséquences
98,345 corpus weight
- dangereux
dangereux
98,344 corpus weight
- danse
danse
98,343 corpus weight
- documents
documents
98,342 corpus weight
What this shows « dangereux » 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 | dangereux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \dɑ̃ʒ.ʁø\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #1,657 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « dangereux »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around dangereux (IPA \dɑ̃ʒ.ʁø\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #1,657 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for dangereux, with forms such as "adngereux", "dagnereux", and "danegreux". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "dangerous", "dangereuse", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 dangereux, spelled D-A-N-G-E-R-E-U-X.
Definition
- 1Qui met en danger, qui expose à un danger ; ou simplement, qui est nuisible, pernicieux.
- 2Qui a les moyens de nuire, ou à qui l’on ne peut se fier sans danger, avec lequel il y a danger à se lier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dangereux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La recherche de micro-polluants organiques dangereux s’inscrit dans le concept de développement durable conciliant la protection de l’environnement et le développement économique.
Des repaires dangereux existaient où la police n’osait s’aventurer.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- adngereux
- dagnereux
- danegreux
- dangeerux
- dangereuxx
- dangerexu
- dangerreux
- dangeruex
- danggereux
- dangreeux
- danngereux
- ddangereux
- dnagereux
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dangereux - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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