Danube
\da.nyb\
The verdict
“Danube” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #16,589 in French word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #16,589
- frequency rank, French
- 6
- letters
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Grand fleuve d’Europe, qui prend sa source dans la Forêt-Noire, passe par Vienne, Bratislava, Budapest, Belgrade, et se jette dans la mer Noire.
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 | Danube |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \da.nyb\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #16,589 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Danube” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Danube is 6 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \da.nyb\. Corpus data places it at rank #16,589 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Grand fleuve d’Europe, qui prend sa source dans la Forêt-Noire, passe par Vienne, Bratislava, Budapest, Belgrade, et se jette dans la mer Noire.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Danube, with forms such as "adnube", "danbue", and "dannube". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "dénué", "daube", "dénuée", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Danube, spelled D-A-N-U-B-E.
Definition
- 1Grand fleuve d’Europe, qui prend sa source dans la Forêt-Noire, passe par Vienne, Bratislava, Budapest, Belgrade, et se jette dans la mer Noire.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: adnube,danbue,dannube,danubbe,danueb,daunbe,ddanube,dnaube
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Danube - 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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Using “Danube”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is D-A-N-U-B-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \da.nyb\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “dénué” - see the side-by-side comparison. Danube vs dénué
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.