Dardanelles
\daʁ.da.nɛl\
The verdict
“Dardanelles” is uncommon French (frequency #54,517 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,517
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Détroit, passage maritime reliant la mer Égée à la mer de Marmara.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dardanelles · Dardanelles · French
Dardanelles · rank #54,517 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,517
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dancehall
Nearest frequency peer: dancehall (-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 « Dardanelles »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cymbales
cymbales
45,487 corpus weight
- Daley
Daley
45,486 corpus weight
- dancehall
dancehall
45,485 corpus weight
- Dardanelles
Dardanelles
45,484 corpus weight
- dass
dass
45,483 corpus weight
- delivery
delivery
45,482 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Dardanelles » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Dardanelles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \daʁ.da.nɛl\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #54,517 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Dardanelles » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Dardanelles is uncommon French at frequency #54,517 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \daʁ.da.nɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Dardanelles, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Dardanelles, spelled D-A-R-D-A-N-E-L-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Détroit, passage maritime reliant la mer Égée à la mer de Marmara.
- 2Région située aux alentours de ce détroit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Dardanelles appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’ai ouï-dire qu’en mars dernier il fut sérieusement question, dans les milieux maritimes, d’envoyer une brigade aux Dardanelles.
Elle avait eu deux beaux enfants de ce matelot, la Clémence, puis la chienne de guerre, la grande, était arrivée, expédiant le Paul aux Dardanelles, dans les pays là-bas comme on disait, aux cinq cents diables quoi !
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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