dall
\ˈdalː\
The verdict
“dall” is uncommon French (frequency #71,417 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,417
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Aveugle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dall · dall · French
dall · rank #71,417 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,417
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH côtoyaient
Nearest frequency peer: côtoyaient (-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 « dall »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cystite
cystite
28,588 corpus weight
- Cèze
Cèze
28,587 corpus weight
- céréalières
céréalières
28,586 corpus weight
- côtoyaient
côtoyaient
28,585 corpus weight
- dall
dall
28,584 corpus weight
- Defferre
Defferre
28,581 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dall » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dall |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈdalː\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #71,417 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dall » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dall is uncommon French at frequency #71,417 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈdalː\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for dall in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is dall, spelled D-A-L-L.
Definition
- 1Aveugle.
- 2Émoussé (couteau, lame, etc).
- 3Sans issue, sans ouverture.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dall appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En ur dremen, e welas Jezuz un den dall abaoe e cʼhanedigezh.
Da Wener ar Groaz hepken e vo distro, hanter zall a-forzh da sellout en e ardivinkoù e lucʼh trellus an aberioù.
Synonyms
Antonyms
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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