dare-dare
\daʁ.daʁ\
The verdict
“dare-dare” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vite ; précipitamment ; promptement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dare-dare · dare-dare · French
dare-dare · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "D" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dare-dare |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \daʁ.daʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
dare-dare is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadverb, transcribed \daʁ.daʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Vite ; précipitamment ; promptement.".
dare-dare has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is dare-dare, spelled D-A-R-E---D-A-R-E.
Definition
- 1Vite ; précipitamment ; promptement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dare-dare appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
– […] Je crois connaître assez la mère, pour être sûr qu’elle s’en ira dare-dare à Paris avec son peintre.
Il tombe comme une bombe à l’hôtel, et dare, dare, fait lever tout le monde.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.