dansent

\dɑ̃s\

/\dɑ̃s\/ verb

The verdict

“dansent” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,502. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#19,502
frequency rank, French
5,307
“D” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
14
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de danser.

Corpus desk

Index FR-dansent · dansent · French

dansent · rank #19,502 · 11 variants · 14 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #19,502
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH célibat

Nearest frequency peer: célibat (-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 « dansent »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « dansent » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

dansent vs disent
71% similar
dansent vs danser
71% similar
dansent vs danses
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for dansent
PropertyValue
Headworddansent
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\dɑ̃s\
Letters7
Frequency rank#19,502
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs14
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « dansent »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.dansentse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « célibat » (#19,501), « Darren » (#19,503), « cum » (#19,500). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « dansent » est au #19,502. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around dansent (IPA \dɑ̃s\), averb. Corpus frequency is #19,502 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for dansent, with forms such as "adnsent", "danesnt", and "dannsent". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "disent", "danser", "danses", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 dansent, spelled D-A-N-S-E-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de danser.
  2. 2
    Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent de danser.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how dansent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Alors, que voulez-vous qu’ils fassent ? Qu’ils beuvaillent, fricotent, baffrent, fument la pipe, chantent, dansent, cavalcadent, boustifaillent, tortillent, goinfrent ou pignochent, boulottent, buvotent, lichent, picolent, chopinent, trinquent et qu’ils rotent et qu’ils cuvent ?

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • adnsent
  • danesnt
  • dannsent
  • dansennt
  • dansentt
  • dansetn
  • dansnet
  • danssent
  • dasnent
  • ddansent
  • dnasent

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dansent - 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.

adnsent2danesnt2dannsent1dansennt1dansentt1dansetn2dansnet2danssent1
Edit distance from "dansent"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "dansent"?
"dansent" is spelled D-A-N-S-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \dɑ̃s\.
What does "dansent" mean?
As a verb, "dansent" means: Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de danser.
What words are commonly confused with "dansent"?
"dansent" is commonly confused with "disent", "danser", "danses". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "dansent"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "dansent" is \dɑ̃s\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "dansent" come from?
"dansent" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "dansent", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list