dah
\da\
The verdict
“dah” is uncommon French (frequency #63,662 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,662
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Poignard birman.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dah · dah · French
dah · rank #63,662 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,662
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH céréalière
Nearest frequency peer: céréalière (-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 « dah »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cuisinez
cuisinez
36,343 corpus weight
- cultuelles
cultuelles
36,342 corpus weight
- céréalière
céréalière
36,340 corpus weight
- dah
dah
36,339 corpus weight
- debt
debt
36,337 corpus weight
- Declan
Declan
36,336 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dah » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dah |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \da\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #63,662 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dah » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dah is uncommon French at frequency #63,662 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \da\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Poignard birman.".
dah doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is dah, spelled D-A-H.
Definition
- 1Poignard birman.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dah appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des faux jetons comme ça, je n'en ai jamais vu ! Ce qui fait le dacoït, c'est le dah et le Snider.
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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