dagues
\daɡ\
The verdict
“dagues” is uncommon French (frequency #68,964 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,964
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de dague.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dagues · dagues · French
dagues · rank #68,964 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,964
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Daguerre
Nearest frequency peer: Daguerre (-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 « dagues »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- currency
currency
31,040 corpus weight
- céphalopodes
céphalopodes
31,039 corpus weight
- Daguerre
Daguerre
31,038 corpus weight
- dagues
dagues
31,037 corpus weight
- dams
dams
31,035 corpus weight
- Darnell
Darnell
31,033 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dagues » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dagues |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \daɡ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #68,964 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dagues » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dagues is uncommon French at frequency #68,964 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \daɡ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de dague.".
No misspelling variants are generated for dagues in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is dagues, spelled D-A-G-U-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de dague.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dagues appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En une heure de tête à tête public, dans un coin, sur un divan, la duchesse amena d’Esgrignon aux générosités scipionesques, aux dévouements amadisiens, aux abnégations du moyen âge qui commençait alors à montrer ses dagues, ses mâchicoulis, ses cottes, ses hauberts, ses souliers à la poulaine, et tout son romantique attirail de carton peint.
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.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "dagues"?
What does "dagues" mean?
How do you pronounce "dagues"?
What language does "dagues" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "dagues", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).