Danzig
The verdict
“Danzig” is uncommon French (frequency #79,205 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,205
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dantzig ou Gdańsk, port polonais de la ville, capitale de 460 000 habitants de la voïvodie de Poméranie
Corpus desk
Index FR-danzig · Danzig · French
Danzig · rank #79,205 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,205
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dalmatiens
Nearest frequency peer: dalmatiens (-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 « Danzig »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- côtoyait
côtoyait
20,800 corpus weight
- dahlias
dahlias
20,799 corpus weight
- dalmatiens
dalmatiens
20,797 corpus weight
- Danzig
Danzig
20,796 corpus weight
- daronne
daronne
20,795 corpus weight
- daw
daw
20,794 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Danzig » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Danzig |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #79,205 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Danzig » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Danzig is uncommon French at frequency #79,205 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Dantzig ou Gdańsk, port polonais de la ville, capitale de 460 000 habitants de la voïvodie de Poméranie".
No misspelling variants are generated for Danzig in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 Danzig, spelled D-A-N-Z-I-G.
Definition
- 1Dantzig ou Gdańsk, port polonais de la ville, capitale de 460 000 habitants de la voïvodie de Poméranie
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Danzig appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Danzig bildet zusammen mit Gdingen, Zoppot und kleineren Städten den Ballungsraum Dreistadt mit 1 Million Einwohnern. — Avec Gdingen, Zoppot et les petites villes de l’agglomération de Trois-ville, Gdansk possède 1 million d’habitants.
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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