denier
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#34,056
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
denier is aFrenchnoun. It means: Monnaie romaine d’argent qui, jusqu’à l’an 536 de Rome, valait dix as et plus tard seize. Pronounced \də.nje\. Often confused with désir and dense.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | denier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \də.nje\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #34,056 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for denier is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \də.nje\. Corpus data places it at rank #34,056 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for denier, with forms such as "ddenier", "deiner", and "deneir". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "désir", "dense", "diner", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is denier, spelled D-E-N-I-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Monnaie romaine d’argent qui, jusqu’à l’an 536 de Rome, valait dix as et plus tard seize.
- 2Ancienne monnaie française de cuivre, qui valait la douzième partie d’un sou tournois ou le tiers d’un liard.
- 3Argent.
- 4Pourcentage d’intérêt.
- 5Une des quatre enseignes d’un jeu de cartes latin, ainsi nommée parce que les cartes de cette couleur sont marquées de deniers stylisés.
- 6Ancienne unité de mesure du poids.
- 7Unité servant au titrage de l’argent ou d’autres métaux précieux ; elle correspond à la quantité d’argent fin contenu dans un lingot supposé divisé en douze parties.
- 8Ancienne unité de mesure du titrage des fils continus caractérisant leur finesse : il vaut 1/9 g/km.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddenier,deiner,deneir,denierr,denire,dennier,dneier,ednier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for denier
Misspelling Variants of "denier"
Frequency rank: #34,056 in French
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