daïra
\daj.ʁa\
The verdict
“daïra” is uncommon French (frequency #93,665 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,665
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Subdivision de la wilaya dans l’administration territoriale algérienne et l’organisation territoriale conçue par le gouvernement en exil de la République arabe sahraouie démocratique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-daira · daïra · French
daïra · rank #93,665 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,665
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH DBA
Nearest frequency peer: DBA (+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 « daïra »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dantesques
dantesques
6,341 corpus weight
- Darroze
Darroze
6,340 corpus weight
- daïra
daïra
6,336 corpus weight
- DBA
DBA
6,335 corpus weight
- dealent
dealent
6,334 corpus weight
- deh
deh
6,331 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « daïra » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | daïra |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \daj.ʁa\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #93,665 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « daïra » en français
Rare enough to double-check
daïra is uncommon French at frequency #93,665 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \daj.ʁa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Subdivision de la wilaya dans l’administration territoriale algérienne et l’organisation territoriale conçue par le gouvernement en exil de la République arabe sahraouie démocratique.".
daïra has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is daïra, spelled D-A-Ï-R-A.
Definition
- 1Subdivision de la wilaya dans l’administration territoriale algérienne et l’organisation territoriale conçue par le gouvernement en exil de la République arabe sahraouie démocratique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how daïra appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
M. Ali Tounsi s’est rendu respectivement dans les daïras de Hachem, d’Aïn-Fekan et de Tizi où il a procédé à l’inauguration des Sûretés de daïra, pourvues de célibatoriums et de logements de fonction.
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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