Dar es Salam
\da.ʁ‿ɛs sa.lam\
The verdict
“Dar es Salam” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a proper noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Grande ville, centre économique et ancienne capitale de la Tanzanie.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Dar es Salam |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \da.ʁ‿ɛs sa.lam\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Dar es Salam” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Dar es Salam is 12 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \da.ʁ‿ɛs sa.lam\. 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: "Grande ville, centre économique et ancienne capitale de la Tanzanie.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Dar es Salam 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 Dar es Salam, spelled D-A-R- -E-S- -S-A-L-A-M, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Grande ville, centre économique et ancienne capitale de la Tanzanie.
This word in other languages
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Using “Dar es Salam”
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- The one correct French spelling is D-A-R- -E-S- -S-A-L-A-M - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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