Danville
\dan.vil\
The verdict
“Danville” is uncommon French (frequency #64,363 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,363
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville canadienne du Québec située dans la MRC des Sources.
Corpus desk
Index FR-danville · Danville · French
Danville · rank #64,363 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,363
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH daims
Nearest frequency peer: daims (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Danville »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Cybèle
Cybèle
35,643 corpus weight
- daims
daims
35,639 corpus weight
- Danville
Danville
35,638 corpus weight
- dataient
dataient
35,637 corpus weight
- datas
datas
35,636 corpus weight
- davant
davant
35,635 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Danville » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Danville |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \dan.vil\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #64,363 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Danville » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Danville is uncommon French at frequency #64,363 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \dan.vil\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ville canadienne du Québec située dans la MRC des Sources.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Danville in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 Danville, spelled D-A-N-V-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Ville canadienne du Québec située dans la MRC des Sources.
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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