dense
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,094
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
dense is anFrenchadj. It means: Épais, compact, dont les parties nous paraissent plus épaisses ou plus serrées. Pronounced \dɑ̃s\. It ranks #8,094 in French word frequency. Often confused with des and DNS.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dense |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \dɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #8,094 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for dense is 5 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dɑ̃s\. Corpus data places it at rank #8,094 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for dense, with forms such as "ddense", "denes", and "dennse". 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, "des", "DNS", "dise", 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 dense, spelled D-E-N-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Épais, compact, dont les parties nous paraissent plus épaisses ou plus serrées.
- 2Qualifie tout corps qui, sous un même volume, pèse plus qu'un autre. Pesant, lourd.
- 3Se dit d’une partie d’un espace topologique X dont l’adhérence est X.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddense,denes,dennse,densse,desne,dnese,ednse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "dense"
Frequency rank: #8,094 in French
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