danseur de salon
\dɑ̃.sœʁ də sa.lɔ̃\
The verdict
“danseur de salon” 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
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Personne pratiquant la danse de salon.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | danseur de salon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dɑ̃.sœʁ də sa.lɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “danseur de salon” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for danseur de salon is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dɑ̃.sœʁ də sa.lɔ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Personne pratiquant la danse de salon.".
No misspelling variants are generated for danseur de salon 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 danseur de salon, spelled D-A-N-S-E-U-R- -D-E- -S-A-L-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Personne pratiquant la danse de salon.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “danseur de salon”
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- The one correct French spelling is D-A-N-S-E-U-R- -D-E- -S-A-L-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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