dass
\das\
The verdict
“dass” is uncommon French (frequency #54,518 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,518
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Directeur des affaires sanitaires et sociales.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dass · dass · French
dass · rank #54,518 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,518
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Dardanelles
Nearest frequency peer: Dardanelles (-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 « dass »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- demanderaie…
demanderaient
45,481 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dass » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dass |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \das\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #54,518 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dass » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dass is uncommon French at frequency #54,518 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \das\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for dass, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 dass, spelled D-A-S-S.
Definition
- 1Directeur des affaires sanitaires et sociales.
- 2Sida.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dass appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ainsi à Versailles le Directeur des affaires sanitaires et sociales – le DASS – adressait au procureur une courte lettre composée de trois paragraphes dont je peux restituer l’essentiel tellement elle est originale.
[elle] avisa dans la rue le directeur des affaires sanitaires & sociales de l’Yonne, lui expliqua sa situation ; celui-ci l’envoya au directeur d’un nouvel externat, qui n’osa pas refuser d’embaucher une femme envoyée par le dass & elle embaucha un mois avant ma naissance.
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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