aller à dame
\a.le.ʁ‿a dam\
The verdict
“aller à dame” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Damer, obtenir la promotion en dame d’un de ses pions, aux jeux de dames et d’échecs.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aller à dame |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.le.ʁ‿a dam\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “aller à dame” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for aller à dame is 12 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.le.ʁ‿a dam\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for aller à dame, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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 French form is aller à dame, spelled A-L-L-E-R- -À- -D-A-M-E.
Definition
- 1Damer, obtenir la promotion en dame d’un de ses pions, aux jeux de dames et d’échecs.
- 2Marquer un essai.
- 3Tomber comme une masse.
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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Using “aller à dame”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is A-L-L-E-R- -À- -D-A-M-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \a.le.ʁ‿a dam\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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.