Daces
\das\
The verdict
“Daces” is uncommon French (frequency #88,515 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,515
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Peuple appartenant aux tribus thraces du Nord, ayant peuplé le bassin Bas-Danube, la Dacie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-daces · Daces · French
Daces · rank #88,515 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,515
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH célimène
Nearest frequency peer: célimène (-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 « Daces »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cymbale
cymbale
11,490 corpus weight
- cytokines
cytokines
11,489 corpus weight
- célimène
célimène
11,487 corpus weight
- Daces
Daces
11,486 corpus weight
- Daphnée
Daphnée
11,483 corpus weight
- darkest
darkest
11,482 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Daces » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Daces |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \das\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #88,515 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Daces » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Daces is uncommon French at frequency #88,515 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \das\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Peuple appartenant aux tribus thraces du Nord, ayant peuplé le bassin Bas-Danube, la Dacie.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Daces, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Daces, spelled D-A-C-E-S.
Definition
- 1Peuple appartenant aux tribus thraces du Nord, ayant peuplé le bassin Bas-Danube, la Dacie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Daces appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En 1966, il réalise son premier long-métrage, Les Daces (l'équivalent en Roumanie des Gaulois en France), une co-production roumano-française qui inaugure une série de films historiques très en phase avec la propagande communiste de l'époque.
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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