Daoulas
\da.u.las\
The verdict
“Daoulas” is uncommon French (frequency #89,588 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,588
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département du Finistère.
Corpus desk
Index FR-daoulas · Daoulas · French
Daoulas · rank #89,588 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,588
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH danke
Nearest frequency peer: danke (-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 « Daoulas »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- daffy
daffy
10,416 corpus weight
- danke
danke
10,414 corpus weight
- Daoulas
Daoulas
10,413 corpus weight
- datar
datar
10,412 corpus weight
- dattier
dattier
10,411 corpus weight
- Dauzat
Dauzat
10,410 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Daoulas » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Daoulas |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \da.u.las\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #89,588 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Daoulas » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Daoulas is uncommon French at frequency #89,588 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \da.u.las\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for Daoulas in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Daoulas, spelled D-A-O-U-L-A-S.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département du Finistère.
- 2Rivière française des Côtes-d'Armor, affluent du Blavet.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Daoulas appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le Point I propose en après-midi et sur réservation des visites guidées et commentées sur le patrimoine historique de la ville de Daoulas.
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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