Danube

\da.nyb\

/\da.nyb\/ name

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The verdict

“Danube” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,589. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#16,589
frequency rank, French
5,307
“D” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
8
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 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.

Corpus desk

Index FR-danube · Danube · French

Danube · rank #16,589 · 8 variants · 8 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #16,589
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH dana

Nearest frequency peer: dana (-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 « Danube »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « Danube » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

Danube vs dénué
33% similar
Danube vs daube
67% similar
Danube vs dénuée
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for Danube
PropertyValue
HeadwordDanube
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
IPA\da.nyb\
Letters6
Frequency rank#16,589
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs8
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Danube »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.Danubese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « dana » (#16,588), « Delhi » (#16,590), « cynisme » (#16,587). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « Danube » est au #16,589. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around Danube (IPA \da.nyb\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #16,589 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "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

  1. 1
    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.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how Danube appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Le département du Doubs était occupé, pendant la période celtique, par les Séquanes, qui formaient une des plus puissantes confédérations de la Gaule et qui prirent part aux expéditions des Gaulois en Italie et dans la vallée du Danube.
  2. En arrivant sur les bords du Danube, en face de la Lobau, je remarquai sur la rive, ou croît une herbe fine, des ondulations semblables aux grands sillons des champs à luzerne.

This word in other languages

Danube(English)Danubio(Español)Donau(Deutsch)

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.

adnube2danbue2dannube1danubbe1danueb2daunbe2ddanube1dnaube2
Edit distance from "Danube"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Danube"?
"Danube" is spelled D-A-N-U-B-E. The IPA pronunciation is \da.nyb\.
What does "Danube" mean?
As a proper noun, "Danube" means: 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.
What words are commonly confused with "Danube"?
"Danube" is commonly confused with "dénué", "daube", "dénuée". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "Danube"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Danube" is \da.nyb\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Danube" come from?
"Danube" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Danube", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

coudes#16,586coques#16,585dégueu#16,603chelou#16,570

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

Coderre8 variantsenvoya8 variantscatch8 variantsEstelle8 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list