Danton
\dɑ̃.tɔ̃\
The verdict
“Danton” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,207. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,207
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille, représenté notamment par Georges Jacques Danton, 1759-1794, avocat et homme politique pendant la Révolution française.
Corpus desk
Index FR-danton · Danton · French
Danton · rank #33,207 · 9 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,207
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH D4
Nearest frequency peer: D4 (-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 « Danton »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cédés
cédés
66,797 corpus weight
- côtiers
côtiers
66,796 corpus weight
- D4
D4
66,795 corpus weight
- Danton
Danton
66,794 corpus weight
- Debian
Debian
66,792 corpus weight
- diamétralem…
diamétralement
66,791 corpus weight
What this shows « Danton » 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 | Danton |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \dɑ̃.tɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #33,207 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Danton »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Danton (IPA \dɑ̃.tɔ̃\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #33,207 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille, représenté notamment par Georges Jacques Danton, 1759-1794, avocat et homme politique pendant la Révolution française.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Danton, with forms such as "adnton", "dannton", and "danotn". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "donjon", "Dawson", "dicton", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Danton, spelled D-A-N-T-O-N.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille, représenté notamment par Georges Jacques Danton, 1759-1794, avocat et homme politique pendant la Révolution française.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Danton appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le président du groupe Renaissance, Sylvain Maillard, s’est quant à lui satisfait du discours de Gabriel Attal en citant Danton : « De l’audace, encore de l’audace, toujours de l’audace, et la France est sauvée. »
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- adnton
- dannton
- danotn
- dantno
- dantonn
- dantton
- datnon
- ddanton
- dnaton
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Danton - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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