vieux danois

/\vjø tyʁk\/ noun

Letters

12 characters

Language

French

word origin

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vieux danois is aFrenchnoun. It means: Langue septentrionale, forme du danois utilisé pendant le Moyen Âge, entre environ 800 et 1525. Pronounced \vjø tyʁk\.

Key facts for vieux danois
PropertyValue
Headwordvieux danois
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\vjø tyʁk\
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

vieux danois is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for vieux danois is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \vjø tyʁk\. 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: "Langue septentrionale, forme du danois utilisé pendant le Moyen Âge, entre environ 800 et 1525.".

No misspelling variants are generated for vieux danois 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 vieux danois, spelled V-I-E-U-X- -D-A-N-O-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Langue septentrionale, forme du danois utilisé pendant le Moyen Âge, entre environ 800 et 1525.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "vieux danois"?
"vieux danois" is spelled V-I-E-U-X- -D-A-N-O-I-S. The IPA pronunciation is \vjø tyʁk\.
What does "vieux danois" mean?
As a noun, "vieux danois" means: Langue septentrionale, forme du danois utilisé pendant le Moyen Âge, entre environ 800 et 1525.
How do you pronounce "vieux danois"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "vieux danois" is \vjø tyʁk\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "vieux danois" come from?
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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.