Dante
\dɑ̃t\
The verdict
“Dante” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,945. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,945
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom masculin, généralement associé à Dante Alighieri.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dante · Dante · French
Dante · rank #11,945 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,945
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH crête
Nearest frequency peer: crête (-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 « Dante »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- crack
crack
88,059 corpus weight
- croisade
croisade
88,058 corpus weight
- crête
crête
88,057 corpus weight
- Dante
Dante
88,056 corpus weight
- datée
datée
88,055 corpus weight
- Denise
Denise
88,054 corpus weight
What this shows « Dante » 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 | Dante |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \dɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #11,945 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Dante »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Dante (IPA \dɑ̃t\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #11,945 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Prénom masculin, généralement associé à Dante Alighieri.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Dante, with forms such as "adnte", "danet", and "dannte". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "dont", "Date", "dite", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Dante, spelled D-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Prénom masculin, généralement associé à Dante Alighieri.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Dante appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dante qui, entre nous, était un bon docteur de Bologne et avait beaucoup de lunes dans la tête, sous son bonnet pointu, Dante croyait à la vertu des nombres. Ce géomètre enflammé rêvait sur des chiffres, et sa Béatrice est une fleur d’arithmétique. Voilà tout !
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- adnte
- danet
- dannte
- dantte
- datne
- ddante
- dnate
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Dante - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).