dain
/ˈdɑjn/
The verdict
“dain” is uncommon French (frequency #87,517 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a pronoun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,517
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Locatif pluriel de dat.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dain · dain · French
dain · rank #87,517 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,517
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH daigner
Nearest frequency peer: daigner (-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 « dain »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- céphalique
céphalique
12,487 corpus weight
- dactylograp…
dactylographie
12,486 corpus weight
- daigner
daigner
12,485 corpus weight
- dain
dain
12,484 corpus weight
- Damascène
Damascène
12,483 corpus weight
- danaïdes
danaïdes
12,482 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dain » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dain |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | /ˈdɑjn/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #87,517 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dain » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dain is uncommon French at frequency #87,517 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as apronoun, transcribed /ˈdɑjn/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Locatif pluriel de dat.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for dain, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is dain, spelled D-A-I-N.
Definition
- 1Locatif pluriel de dat.
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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