daurade

/\do.ʁad\/ noun

The verdict

“daurade” is an uncommon French word, ranked #60,689 in French word frequency and used as a noun.

#60,689
frequency rank, French
7
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Poisson de la famille des Sparidés, très commun dans la mer Méditerranée, et dont il existe plusieurs espèces.

Key facts for daurade
PropertyValue
Headworddaurade
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\do.ʁad\
Letters7
Frequency rank#60,689
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “daurade” sits in French frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). daurade lands here:

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Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for daurade is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \do.ʁad\. Corpus data places it at rank #60,689 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for daurade 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 daurade, spelled D-A-U-R-A-D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Poisson de la famille des Sparidés, très commun dans la mer Méditerranée, et dont il existe plusieurs espèces.
  2. 2
    Variante de daurade royale (poisson).
  3. 3
    Synonyme de coryphène (poisson).

Frequency rank: #60,689 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "daurade"?
"daurade" is spelled D-A-U-R-A-D-E. The IPA pronunciation is \do.ʁad\.
What does "daurade" mean?
As a noun, "daurade" means: Poisson de la famille des Sparidés, très commun dans la mer Méditerranée, et dont il existe plusieurs espèces.
How do you pronounce "daurade"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "daurade" is \do.ʁad\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "daurade" come from?
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Using “daurade”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is D-A-U-R-A-D-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \do.ʁad\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.