dard
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#28,906
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
dard is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ancienne arme de trait garnie par le bout d’une pointe de fer et qu’on lançait avec la main. Pronounced \dɑʁ\. Often confused with dr and DD.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dɑʁ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #28,906 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for dard is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dɑʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #28,906 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for dard, with forms such as "adrd", "dadr", and "dardd". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "dr", "DD", "dur", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 dard, spelled D-A-R-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ancienne arme de trait garnie par le bout d’une pointe de fer et qu’on lançait avec la main.
- 2Fléchette, au jeu du même nom.
- 3La partie essentielle de l’aiguillon de certains insectes.
- 4Se dit de la langue pointue des serpents, etc.
- 5Ornement en forme de fer de dard qui sépare les oves.
- 6Pistil.
- 7Petit rameau avec un bourgeon pointu.
- 8Espèce de carpe, ainsi nommée parce qu’elle s’élance avec beaucoup de vitesse : on l’appelle aussi vaudoise ou vandoise.
- 9Membre viril, notamment en érection.
- 10En forme de dard, en parlant de feuilles ou d’objets.
- 11Meuble représentant l’arme du même nom dans les armoiries. Il est généralement représenté comme la flèche mais sans empennage. Parfois on ne voit que son fer. À rapprocher de épieu, javelot, lance, lance de tournoi et pique.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: adrd,dadr,dardd,darrd,ddard,drad
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for dard
Misspelling Variants of "dard"
Frequency rank: #28,906 in French
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