dansais
\dɑ̃.sɛ\
The verdict
“dansais” is uncommon French (frequency #65,843 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,843
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de danser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dansais · dansais · French
dansais · rank #65,843 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,843
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH daltonien
Nearest frequency peer: daltonien (-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 « dansais »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Cévenol
Cévenol
34,162 corpus weight
- dade
dade
34,160 corpus weight
- daltonien
daltonien
34,159 corpus weight
- dansais
dansais
34,158 corpus weight
- datations
datations
34,157 corpus weight
- degree
degree
34,154 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dansais » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dansais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \dɑ̃.sɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #65,843 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dansais » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dansais is uncommon French at frequency #65,843 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \dɑ̃.sɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for dansais in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is dansais, spelled D-A-N-S-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de danser.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de danser.
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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