dade
\dá.dè\
The verdict
“dade” is uncommon French (frequency #65,841 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,841
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Se taire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dade · dade · French
dade · rank #65,841 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,841
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH daltonien
Nearest frequency peer: daltonien (+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 « dade »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cénotaphe
cénotaphe
34,163 corpus weight
- Cévenol
Cévenol
34,162 corpus weight
- dade
dade
34,160 corpus weight
- daltonien
daltonien
34,159 corpus weight
- dansais
dansais
34,158 corpus weight
- datations
datations
34,157 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dade » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dade |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \dá.dè\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #65,841 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dade » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dade is uncommon French at frequency #65,841 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \dá.dè\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Se taire.".
dade has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 dade, spelled D-A-D-E.
Definition
- 1Se taire.
Synonyms
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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