dans
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#20
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
dans is aFrenchprep. It means: Préposition de lieu qui marque le rapport d’une personne ou d’une chose à ce qui la contient. Introduit un complément circonstanciel de lieu. Pronounced \dɑ̃\. It ranks #20 in French word frequency. Often confused with Ds and DN.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dans |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Prep |
| IPA | \dɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for dans is 4 letters long, classified as aprep, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #20 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for dans, with forms such as "adns", "danns", and "danss". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Ds", "DN", "des", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is dans, spelled D-A-N-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Préposition de lieu qui marque le rapport d’une personne ou d’une chose à ce qui la contient. Introduit un complément circonstanciel de lieu.
- 2Désigne la situation qu’une personne occupe, l’état où elle est, la disposition où elle se trouve, etc.
- 3Avec.
- 4Selon.
- 5Avec des mots qui indiquent une époque, une durée.
- 6Indique un moment postérieur au moment de l’énonciation.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: adns,danns,danss,dasn,ddans,dnas
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for dans
Misspelling Variants of "dans"
Frequency rank: #20 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter D in our French index: