dapper
\dæpə(r)\
The verdict
“dapper” is uncommon French (frequency #98,945 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,945
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fringant, sémillant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dapper · dapper · French
dapper · rank #98,945 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,945
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dahu
Nearest frequency peer: dahu (-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 « dapper »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cénomanien
cénomanien
1,063 corpus weight
- dagger
dagger
1,058 corpus weight
- dahu
dahu
1,057 corpus weight
- dapper
dapper
1,056 corpus weight
- darons
darons
1,054 corpus weight
- Delcroix
Delcroix
1,049 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dapper » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dapper |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \dæpə(r)\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #98,945 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dapper » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dapper is uncommon French at frequency #98,945 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \dæpə(r)\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fringant, sémillant.".
No misspelling variants are generated for dapper in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is dapper, spelled D-A-P-P-E-R.
Definition
- 1Fringant, sémillant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dapper appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Going down the street, you would meet a typical commercial traveller, dapper and alert. — P.G.Wodehouse, The Man With Two Left Feet, 1917.
This entrance is through a little courtyard, in which is the stable and coach-house combined, where Madame Perinere, a lady who paints the magic word "Modes" beneath her name on the door-post of number seventeen, keeps the dapper little cart and pony which carry her bonnets to the farthest corner of Paris. — Henry Seton Merriman, The Slave Of The Lamp, 1892.
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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