dansaient
\dɑ̃.sɛ\
The verdict
“dansaient” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #43,875. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,875
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait de danser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dansaient · dansaient · French
dansaient · rank #43,875 · 13 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,875
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Denzel
Nearest frequency peer: Denzel (+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 « dansaient »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cueilli
cueilli
56,129 corpus weight
- célestine
célestine
56,128 corpus weight
- dansaient
dansaient
56,126 corpus weight
- Denzel
Denzel
56,125 corpus weight
- devenais
devenais
56,124 corpus weight
- Dex
Dex
56,123 corpus weight
What this shows « dansaient » 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 | dansaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \dɑ̃.sɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #43,875 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « dansaient »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around dansaient (IPA \dɑ̃.sɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #43,875 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait de danser.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for dansaient, with forms such as "adnsaient", "danasient", and "dannsaient". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "dansant", "dansent", "dansait", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 dansaient, spelled D-A-N-S-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait de danser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dansaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Chaque quinzaine, ils avaient un jour pour cultiver leur propre terre, chaque dimanche, ils élevaient leurs cœurs vers le Tout-Puissant, chaque soir, hommes, femmes, enfans, dansaient au son du bamboula, tambour dont battaient les plus vieux.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- adnsaient
- danasient
- dannsaient
- dansaeint
- dansaiennt
- dansaientt
- dansaietn
- dansainet
- dansiaent
- danssaient
- dasnaient
- ddansaient
- dnasaient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dansaient - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).