Daigle
The verdict
“Daigle” is uncommon French (frequency #72,233 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,233
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-daigle · Daigle · French
Daigle · rank #72,233 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,233
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH cyclopes
Nearest frequency peer: cyclopes (-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 « Daigle »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- crépitement
crépitement
27,771 corpus weight
- cyclopes
cyclopes
27,769 corpus weight
- Daigle
Daigle
27,768 corpus weight
- Dalian
Dalian
27,767 corpus weight
- daller
daller
27,766 corpus weight
- damner
damner
27,765 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Daigle » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Daigle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #72,233 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Daigle » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Daigle is uncommon French at frequency #72,233 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Daigle, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Daigle, spelled D-A-I-G-L-E.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Daigle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« À combien d’engelures, d’amputations et de décès ferons-nous face cet hiver ? », s’inquiète Maryane Daigle, organisatrice communautaire au RAPSIM.
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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