Dakhla
\daʁ.la\
The verdict
“Dakhla” is uncommon French (frequency #92,613 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,613
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville du Sahara occidental.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dakhla · Dakhla · French
Dakhla · rank #92,613 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,613
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dado
Nearest frequency peer: dado (-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 « Dakhla »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cérémoniel
cérémoniel
7,392 corpus weight
- dado
dado
7,389 corpus weight
- Dakhla
Dakhla
7,388 corpus weight
- DCL
DCL
7,387 corpus weight
- debrief
debrief
7,386 corpus weight
- deputy
deputy
7,384 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Dakhla » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Dakhla |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \daʁ.la\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #92,613 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Dakhla » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Dakhla is uncommon French at frequency #92,613 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \daʁ.la\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ville du Sahara occidental.".
Dakhla has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Dakhla, spelled D-A-K-H-L-A.
Definition
- 1Ville du Sahara occidental.
This word in other languages
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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