piste de danse

/\pist də dɑ̃s\/ noun

The verdict

“piste de danse” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
14
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Endroit où l’on danse au sein d’un établissement.

Key facts for piste de danse
PropertyValue
Headwordpiste de danse
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pist də dɑ̃s\
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “piste de danse” sits in French frequency

piste de danse falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for piste de danse is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pist də dɑ̃s\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Endroit où l’on danse au sein d’un établissement.".

No misspelling variants are generated for piste de danse in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 piste de danse, spelled P-I-S-T-E- -D-E- -D-A-N-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Endroit où l’on danse au sein d’un établissement.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "piste de danse"?
"piste de danse" is spelled P-I-S-T-E- -D-E- -D-A-N-S-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pist də dɑ̃s\.
What does "piste de danse" mean?
As a noun, "piste de danse" means: Endroit où l’on danse au sein d’un établissement.
How do you pronounce "piste de danse"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "piste de danse" is \pist də dɑ̃s\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "piste de danse" come from?
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Using “piste de danse”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is P-I-S-T-E- -D-E- -D-A-N-S-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \pist də dɑ̃s\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.