dau
\daw\
The verdict
“dau” is uncommon French (frequency #66,644 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an article. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,644
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - La jornada dau l’endeman risca d’estre clafida de dificultats imprevistas, au trin que van lei causas ... — (Florian Vernet, Ont'a passat ma planeta?, 1995 ^([1])) #*: La journée du lendemain risq...
Corpus desk
Index FR-dau · dau · French
dau · rank #66,644 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,644
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH debate
Nearest frequency peer: debate (+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 « dau »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cyclonique
cyclonique
33,364 corpus weight
- cymes
cymes
33,363 corpus weight
- céderai
céderai
33,362 corpus weight
- dactylo
dactylo
33,361 corpus weight
- dau
dau
33,357 corpus weight
- debate
debate
33,356 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dau » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Article |
| IPA | \daw\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #66,644 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dau » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dau is uncommon French at frequency #66,644 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anarticle, transcribed \daw\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "La jornada dau l’endeman risca d’estre clafida de dificultats imprevistas, au trin que van lei causas ... — (Florian Vernet, Ont'a passat ma planeta?, 1995 ^([1])) #*: La journée du lendemain risq...".
No generated misspelling entries exist for dau in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is dau, spelled D-A-U.
Definition
- 1La jornada dau l’endeman risca d’estre clafida de dificultats imprevistas, au trin que van lei causas ... — (Florian Vernet, Ont'a passat ma planeta?, 1995 ^([1])) #*: La journée du lendemain risque d’être rempliée de difficultés imprévues, au train où vont les choses ...
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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