Daley
The verdict
“Daley” is uncommon French (frequency #54,515 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,515
- 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-daley · Daley · French
Daley · rank #54,515 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,515
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH cymbales
Nearest frequency peer: cymbales (-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 « Daley »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cuticule
cuticule
45,489 corpus weight
- cyberattaque
cyberattaque
45,488 corpus weight
- cymbales
cymbales
45,487 corpus weight
- Daley
Daley
45,486 corpus weight
- dancehall
dancehall
45,485 corpus weight
- Dardanelles
Dardanelles
45,484 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Daley » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Daley |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #54,515 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Daley » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Daley is uncommon French at frequency #54,515 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Daley doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Daley, spelled D-A-L-E-Y.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Daley appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Après avoir découvert, en projection privée, cette fresque riche en scènes d’actions et en gags, signée Jonathan Goldstein et John Francis Daley, Laëtitia Da Silva était fin prête pour les rencontres qu’elle a menées dans un anglais parfait.
Deux candidats, sans relief de l’avis de tous, pour une mairie qui a connu de célèbres prédécesseurs comme Richard Daley, qui a régné sur la ville de 1955 à 1976.
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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