Dacca
\da.ka\
The verdict
“Dacca” is uncommon French (frequency #59,929 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,929
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Capitale du Bangladesh.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dacca · Dacca · French
Dacca · rank #59,929 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,929
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH cyborgs
Nearest frequency peer: cyborgs (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Dacca »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cumuls
cumuls
40,076 corpus weight
- curative
curative
40,075 corpus weight
- curve
curve
40,074 corpus weight
- cyborgs
cyborgs
40,073 corpus weight
- Dacca
Dacca
40,072 corpus weight
- DCA
DCA
40,069 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Dacca » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Dacca |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \da.ka\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #59,929 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Dacca » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Dacca is uncommon French at frequency #59,929 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \da.ka\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Capitale du Bangladesh.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Dacca, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Dacca, spelled D-A-C-C-A.
Definition
- 1Capitale du Bangladesh.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Dacca appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le Bangladesh a inauguré samedi un important pont près de la capitale Dacca après un long chantier émaillé de retards, d'accusations de corruption et même de lynchages sur fond de rumeurs de sacrifices humains.
Synonyms
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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