danse du ventre
The verdict
“danse du ventre” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Style de danse originaire du Moyen-Orient, caractérisé par le ventre dénudé et les mouvements des hanches.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | danse du ventre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dɑ̃s dy vɑ̃tʁ\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “danse du ventre” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for danse du ventre is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dɑ̃s dy vɑ̃tʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for danse du ventre in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 danse du ventre, spelled D-A-N-S-E- -D-U- -V-E-N-T-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Style de danse originaire du Moyen-Orient, caractérisé par le ventre dénudé et les mouvements des hanches.
- 2Manœuvre de séduction ou de complaisance.
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is D-A-N-S-E- -D-U- -V-E-N-T-R-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \dɑ̃s dy vɑ̃tʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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