dara
The verdict
“dara” is uncommon French (frequency #57,202 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,202
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième, second.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dara · dara · French
dara · rank #57,202 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,202
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH cyberespace
Nearest frequency peer: cyberespace (-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 « dara »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cuissardes
cuissardes
42,802 corpus weight
- Cuzco
Cuzco
42,801 corpus weight
- cyberespace
cyberespace
42,800 corpus weight
- dara
dara
42,799 corpus weight
- dawa
dawa
42,797 corpus weight
- Descamps
Descamps
42,796 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dara » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dara |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #57,202 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dara » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dara is uncommon French at frequency #57,202 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Deuxième, second.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for dara 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 tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is dara, spelled D-A-R-A.
Definition
- 1Deuxième, second.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dara appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
An dara haois.
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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