dahir
\da.iʁ\
The verdict
“dahir” is uncommon French (frequency #77,404 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,404
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Décret émis par le sultan ou le roi du Maroc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dahir · dahir · French
dahir · rank #77,404 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,404
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH damiers
Nearest frequency peer: damiers (+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 « dahir »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Cyrielle
Cyrielle
22,600 corpus weight
- cœliaque
cœliaque
22,599 corpus weight
- dahir
dahir
22,597 corpus weight
- damiers
damiers
22,596 corpus weight
- Daniella
Daniella
22,595 corpus weight
- dansons
dansons
22,594 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dahir » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dahir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \da.iʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #77,404 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dahir » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dahir is uncommon French at frequency #77,404 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \da.iʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Décret émis par le sultan ou le roi du Maroc.".
dahir doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is dahir, spelled D-A-H-I-R.
Definition
- 1Décret émis par le sultan ou le roi du Maroc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dahir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le vétérinaire surveille aussi minutieusement l’application du dahir du 4 août 1914 interdisant l’abatage pour le boucher des femelles de l’espèce bovine avant l’âge de huit ans et de celles des espèces ovine et caprine avant cinq ans.
Il y a cinquante ans, les rares propriétaires fonciers étaient des chorfa, des zaouïas, des dignitaires du makhzen qui avaient obtenu leurs terres par dahir chérifien.
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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