danseuse
\dɑ̃.søz\
The verdict
“danseuse” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,856. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,856
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Femme qui danse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-danseuse · danseuse · French
danseuse · rank #10,856 · 11 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,856
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH danseurs
Nearest frequency peer: danseurs (-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 « danseuse »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- créanciers
créanciers
89,148 corpus weight
- cultiver
cultiver
89,147 corpus weight
- danseurs
danseurs
89,146 corpus weight
- danseuse
danseuse
89,145 corpus weight
- distributeu…
distributeurs
89,143 corpus weight
- douanes
douanes
89,142 corpus weight
What this shows « danseuse » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | danseuse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dɑ̃.søz\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #10,856 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « danseuse »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around danseuse (IPA \dɑ̃.søz\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,856 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for danseuse, with forms such as "adnseuse", "danesuse", and "dannseuse". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "danseuses", "danses", "danseur", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 danseuse, spelled D-A-N-S-E-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Femme qui danse.
- 2Professionnelle de la danse.
- 3Investissement non rentable effectué par une personne ou un groupe de personnes, mais qui est maintenu par pur plaisir ou pour du mécénat.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how danseuse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Par exemple, avez-vous quelquefois réfléchi à certains mots irréguliers de notre langue qui ne prennent pas le féminin, comme les autres mots de la même famille, tels que : poëte, auteur, écrivain, peintre, sculpteur, architecte, compositeur, littérateur, etc. ? Pourquoi ne dit-on pas : peintresse, architectesse, poëtesse, comme on dit : prophétesse ou pr…
Je continue à donner des ordres à la danseuse en prenant la voix de Kniaseff : « Casse le coude… Casse le coude… Grand jeté… Penché… Déboulé… Battement tendu… »
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- adnseuse
- danesuse
- dannseuse
- dansesue
- danseues
- danseusse
- dansseuse
- dansuese
- dasneuse
- ddanseuse
- dnaseuse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of danseuse - 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.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "danseuse", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).