Danzig
The verdict
“Danzig” is uncommon French (frequency #79,205 among 404,891 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,205
- frequency rank, French
- 404,891
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Dantzig ou Gdańsk, port polonais de la ville, capitale de 460 000 habitants de la voïvodie de Poméranie
| 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) |
Where “Danzig” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Danzig is uncommon French at frequency #79,205 among 404,891 “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
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 “Danzig”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is D-A-N-Z-I-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.