dal
\dal\
The verdict
“dal” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #23,826) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #23,826
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plat d’origine indienne réalisé à base de lentilles, de pois ou de haricots.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dal · dal · French
dal · rank #23,826 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,826
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH côtoyé
Nearest frequency peer: côtoyé (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “dal”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- célébrant
célébrant
76,177 corpus weight
- côtoyé
côtoyé
76,176 corpus weight
- dal
dal
76,175 corpus weight
- demeurait
demeurait
76,174 corpus weight
- derrick
derrick
76,172 corpus weight
- descriptive
descriptive
76,171 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “dal” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dal\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #23,826 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “dal” se place dans la fréquence du français
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for dal is neighbouring look-alikes ("de", "du", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \dal\. Frequency #23,826 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Gloss: "Plat d’origine indienne réalisé à base de lentilles, de pois ou de haricots.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for dal in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "de", "du", "dr", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is dal, spelled D-A-L.
Definition
- 1Plat d’origine indienne réalisé à base de lentilles, de pois ou de haricots.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
- Vous êtes mon invité, poursuit Ali, je ne vais quand même pas vous donner à manger du dal. Le dal, ce sont des lentilles que les pauvres mangent au Pakistan en guise de plat principal. Il s’agit d’une soupe épaisse qui, pour les classes de nantis, ne constitue qu’un mets d’accompagnement.
Lorsque sa tante l’appela vers midi, Goulki le suivit. Quand Apou eut fini de manger sa tante demanda : « Goulki, tu veux manger ? Assieds-toi à la place d’Apou. Il y a du ragoût de fleurs de bananier. Je te donne du dal. »
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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- "dal" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "de". View pair
- Usage frequency rank #23,826 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.