densité
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,546
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
11
similar word pairs
densité is aFrenchnoun. It means: Caractère de ce qui est dense. Pronounced \dɑ̃.si.te\. It ranks #5,546 in French word frequency. Often confused with desire and dépité.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | densité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dɑ̃.si.te\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #5,546 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for densité is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dɑ̃.si.te\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,546 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for densité, with forms such as "ddensité", "denisté", and "dennsité". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "desire", "dépité", "dessine", 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 densité, spelled D-E-N-S-I-T-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Caractère de ce qui est dense.
- 2Quantité d’élément par unité d’espace, avec diverses définitions précises.
- 3Nombre de tiges à l’hectare.
- 4Densité relative. Rapport entre la masse d’un volume d’un liquide ou d’un solide et la masse d’un même volume d’eau à 4°C, ou entre la masse d’un volume d’un gaz et la masse d’un même volume d’air à 0°C sous une pression de 760 mmHg. La densité relative d’un liquide ou d’un solide est presque égale à la masse volumique mesurée en gramme par centimètre cube (g/cm³), parce que l’eau a une masse volumique presque égale à 1 g/cm³.
- 5Densité de population ; rapport du nombre d’habitants à une surface déterminée de leur territoire.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddensité,denisté,dennsité,densite,densitté,densiét,denssité,denstié,desnité,dnesité,ednsité
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for densité
Misspelling Variants of "densité"
Frequency rank: #5,546 in French
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