danke schön
\ˈdaŋ.kə ʃøːn\
The verdict
“danke schön” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Merci beaucoup.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | danke schön |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | \ˈdaŋ.kə ʃøːn\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “danke schön” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
danke schön is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as aninterjection, transcribed \ˈdaŋ.kə ʃøːn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Merci beaucoup.".
danke schön has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists 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 danke schön, spelled D-A-N-K-E- -S-C-H-Ö-N.
Definition
- 1Merci beaucoup.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “danke schön”
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- The one correct French spelling is D-A-N-K-E- -S-C-H-Ö-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.