danseur étoile
\dɑ̃.sœ.ʁ‿e.twal\
The verdict
“danseur étoile” 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
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Danseur ayant obtenu le titre suprême accordé aux artistes de la danse dans la hiérarchie du ballet de l’Opéra national de Paris.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | danseur étoile |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dɑ̃.sœ.ʁ‿e.twal\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “danseur étoile” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for danseur étoile is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dɑ̃.sœ.ʁ‿e.twal\. 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 danseur étoile 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 étoile, spelled D-A-N-S-E-U-R- -É-T-O-I-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Danseur ayant obtenu le titre suprême accordé aux artistes de la danse dans la hiérarchie du ballet de l’Opéra national de Paris.
- 2Danseur ayant atteint le niveau suprême dans un autre corps de ballet.
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- The one correct French spelling is D-A-N-S-E-U-R- -É-T-O-I-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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