Dame du lac
The verdict
“Dame du lac” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Cocktail à base de bière avec un shot de whiskey.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Dame du lac |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dam dy lak\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Dame du lac” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Dame du lac is 11 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dam dy lak\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Cocktail à base de bière avec un shot de whiskey.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Dame du lac in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is Dame du lac, spelled D-A-M-E- -D-U- -L-A-C, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cocktail à base de bière avec un shot de whiskey.
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Using “Dame du lac”
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- The one correct French spelling is D-A-M-E- -D-U- -L-A-C - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \dam dy lak\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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