Dagon
\da.ɡɔ̃\
The verdict
“Dagon” is uncommon French (frequency #96,808 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,808
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Idole des Philistins, mi-homme, mi-poisson.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dagon · Dagon · French
Dagon · rank #96,808 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,808
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH côtelé
Nearest frequency peer: côtelé (-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 « Dagon »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Céphalonie
Céphalonie
3,195 corpus weight
- côtelé
côtelé
3,194 corpus weight
- Dagon
Dagon
3,193 corpus weight
- daire
daire
3,192 corpus weight
- Damen
Damen
3,191 corpus weight
- dashboard
dashboard
3,190 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Dagon » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Dagon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \da.ɡɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #96,808 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Dagon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Dagon is uncommon French at frequency #96,808 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \da.ɡɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Idole des Philistins, mi-homme, mi-poisson.".
Dagon has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 Dagon, spelled D-A-G-O-N.
Definition
- 1Idole des Philistins, mi-homme, mi-poisson.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Dagon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les Philistins prirent l’arche de Dieu, et ils la transportèrent d’Ében Ézer à Ashdod. Après s’être emparés de l’arche de Dieu, les Philistins la firent entrer dans la maison de Dagon et la placèrent à côté de Dagon. Le lendemain, les Ashdodiens, qui s’étaient levés de bon matin, trouvèrent Dagon étendu la face contre terre, devant l’arche de l’Éternel. I…
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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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