dace
\das\
The verdict
“dace” is uncommon French (frequency #97,836 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,836
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Langue thraco-illyrienne parlée dans l’Antiquité qui reste très peu connue en raison du mode de transmission principalement oral des peuples qui l’utilisaient.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dace · dace · French
dace · rank #97,836 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,836
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH daguerréotype
Nearest frequency peer: daguerréotype (+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 « dace »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Cully
Cully
2,170 corpus weight
- custos
custos
2,168 corpus weight
- dace
dace
2,165 corpus weight
- daguerréoty…
daguerréotype
2,164 corpus weight
- dandysme
dandysme
2,162 corpus weight
- Dania
Dania
2,161 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dace » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dace |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \das\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #97,836 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dace » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dace is uncommon French at frequency #97,836 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \das\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Langue thraco-illyrienne parlée dans l’Antiquité qui reste très peu connue en raison du mode de transmission principalement oral des peuples qui l’utilisaient.".
No misspelling variants are generated for dace in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is dace, spelled D-A-C-E.
Definition
- 1Langue thraco-illyrienne parlée dans l’Antiquité qui reste très peu connue en raison du mode de transmission principalement oral des peuples qui l’utilisaient.
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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