dahu
The verdict
“dahu” is an uncommon French word, ranked #98,944 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #98,944
- frequency rank, French
- 4
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Animal imaginaire, proche du bouquetin, qui aurait les pattes d'un côté plus courtes que celles de l'autre côté, et serait ainsi condamné, sur une pente montagneuse, à se déplacer toujours dans le ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dahu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \da.y\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #98,944 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “dahu” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for dahu is 4 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \da.y\. Corpus data places it at rank #98,944 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for dahu in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is dahu, spelled D-A-H-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Animal imaginaire, proche du bouquetin, qui aurait les pattes d'un côté plus courtes que celles de l'autre côté, et serait ainsi condamné, sur une pente montagneuse, à se déplacer toujours dans le même sens.
- 2Meuble représentant l’animal imaginaire du même nom dans les armoiries. Il est généralement représenté rampant, la tête présentée de face. Il n’y a toutefois pas de règle stricte du fait de son usage limité dans les armoiries. On peut cependant lui associer les règles de blasonnement des chèvres en ce qui concerne ses attributs.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #98,944 in French
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Using “dahu”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is D-A-H-U — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \da.y\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter D in our French index: