dah
[ˈd̪a]
The verdict
“dah” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #51,508 among 4,885 “D” headwords), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,508
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,885
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Usada para denotar obviedad o estupidez de forma desdeñosa.
Corpus desk
Index ES-dah · dah · Spanish
dah · rank #51,508 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,508
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,885
- PHOTO-FINISH Dafne
Nearest frequency peer: Dafne (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “dah”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- culpaba
culpaba
48,496 corpus weight
- curanderos
curanderos
48,495 corpus weight
- Dafne
Dafne
48,494 corpus weight
- dah
dah
48,493 corpus weight
- dealer
dealer
48,492 corpus weight
- debatía
debatía
48,491 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “dah” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dah |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | [ˈd̪a] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #51,508 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “dah” en español
Rare enough to double-check
dah is uncommon Spanish at frequency #51,508 among 4,885 “D” headwords, classed as aninterjection, transcribed [ˈd̪a]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Usada para denotar obviedad o estupidez de forma desdeñosa.".
No misspelling variants are generated for dah in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is dah, spelled D-A-H.
Definition
- 1Usada para denotar obviedad o estupidez de forma desdeñosa.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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