première danseuse
\pʁə.mjɛʁ dɑ̃.søz\
The verdict
“première danseuse” 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
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Titre attribué à la danseuse qui atteint le deuxième échelon dans la hiérarchie du Ballet de l’Opéra de Paris, après avoir été sujet.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | première danseuse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁə.mjɛʁ dɑ̃.søz\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “première danseuse” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for première danseuse is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁə.mjɛʁ dɑ̃.søz\. 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: "Titre attribué à la danseuse qui atteint le deuxième échelon dans la hiérarchie du Ballet de l’Opéra de Paris, après avoir été sujet.".
No misspelling variants are generated for première danseuse 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 première danseuse, spelled P-R-E-M-I-È-R-E- -D-A-N-S-E-U-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Titre attribué à la danseuse qui atteint le deuxième échelon dans la hiérarchie du Ballet de l’Opéra de Paris, après avoir été sujet.
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.
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- The one correct French spelling is P-R-E-M-I-È-R-E- -D-A-N-S-E-U-S-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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