danis
\ˈdãː.nis\
The verdict
“danis” is uncommon French (frequency #78,319 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,319
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forme mutée de tanis par adoucissement (t → d).
Corpus desk
Index FR-danis · danis · French
danis · rank #78,319 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,319
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dances
Nearest frequency peer: dances (-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 « danis »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cyclotron
cyclotron
21,685 corpus weight
- dances
dances
21,683 corpus weight
- danis
danis
21,682 corpus weight
- dards
dards
21,681 corpus weight
- darla
darla
21,680 corpus weight
- darwinienne
darwinienne
21,679 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « danis » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | danis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈdãː.nis\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #78,319 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « danis » en français
Rare enough to double-check
danis is uncommon French at frequency #78,319 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈdãː.nis\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Forme mutée de tanis par adoucissement (t → d).".
No generated misspelling entries exist for danis in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is danis, spelled D-A-N-I-S.
Definition
- 1Forme mutée de tanis par adoucissement (t → d).
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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