danseuse de corde
\dɑ̃.søz də kɔʁd\
The verdict
“danseuse de corde” 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
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Danseuse, acrobate et funambule qui évolue sur une corde ou un fil d’archal tendu au-dessus du sol.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | danseuse de corde |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dɑ̃.søz də kɔʁd\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “danseuse de corde” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for danseuse de corde is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dɑ̃.søz də kɔʁd\. 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: "Danseuse, acrobate et funambule qui évolue sur une corde ou un fil d’archal tendu au-dessus du sol.".
No misspelling variants are generated for danseuse de corde 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 danseuse de corde, spelled D-A-N-S-E-U-S-E- -D-E- -C-O-R-D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Danseuse, acrobate et funambule qui évolue sur une corde ou un fil d’archal tendu au-dessus du sol.
Synonyms
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- The one correct French spelling is D-A-N-S-E-U-S-E- -D-E- -C-O-R-D-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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