dashboard
\ˈdæʃ.ˌbɔː(ɹ)d\
The verdict
“dashboard” is an uncommon French word, ranked #96,811 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #96,811
- frequency rank, French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Tableau de bord.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dashboard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈdæʃ.ˌbɔː(ɹ)d\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #96,811 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “dashboard” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for dashboard is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˈdæʃ.ˌbɔː(ɹ)d\. Corpus data places it at rank #96,811 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Tableau de bord.".
No misspelling variants are generated for dashboard 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 dashboard, spelled D-A-S-H-B-O-A-R-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tableau de bord.
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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- The one correct French spelling is D-A-S-H-B-O-A-R-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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