don du sang
The verdict
“don du sang” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Don d’une partie du sang en vue de l’élaboration de produits sanguins.
Corpus desk
Index FR-don-du-sang · don du sang · French
don du sang · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "D" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | don du sang |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
don du sang is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for don du sang, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is don du sang, spelled D-O-N- -D-U- -S-A-N-G.
Definition
- 1Don d’une partie du sang en vue de l’élaboration de produits sanguins.
- 2(surtout à l’oral) Collecte organisée pour permettre aux gens de donner leur sang plus près de chez eux.
- 3Expression que l’on employait pour signifier le devoir qu’avaient autrefois les hommes de participer aux guerres et donc, de verser leur sang pour leur pays ou leur contrée.
- 4Expression qui signifiait qu’une personne pouvait donner sa vie pour venger la mort d’une autre personne proche.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how don du sang appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des blessés qui ont perdu beaucoup de sang peuvent être sauvés grâce au don du sang.
Participerez-vous au don du sang qui aura lieu mercredi à la salle des fêtes ?
Synonyms
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.