danseuse étoile
\dɑ̃.sø.z‿e.twal\
The verdict
“danseuse 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
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Danseuse 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 | danseuse étoile |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dɑ̃.sø.z‿e.twal\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “danseuse étoile” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for danseuse étoile is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dɑ̃.sø.z‿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 danseuse 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 danseuse étoile, spelled D-A-N-S-E-U-S-E- -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
- 1Danseuse ayant obtenu le titre suprême accordé aux artistes de la danse dans la hiérarchie du ballet de l’Opéra national de Paris.
- 2Danseuse ayant atteint le niveau suprême dans un autre corps de ballet.
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