davul
The verdict
“davul” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Instrument à percussion similaire à la grosse caisse, originaire de Turquie, Arménie, ou Bulgarie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-davul · davul · French
davul · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 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 | davul |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « davul » en français
Rare enough to double-check
davul is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Instrument à percussion similaire à la grosse caisse, originaire de Turquie, Arménie, ou Bulgarie.".
davul doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is davul, spelled D-A-V-U-L.
Definition
- 1Instrument à percussion similaire à la grosse caisse, originaire de Turquie, Arménie, ou Bulgarie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how davul appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des ouvriers, hommes et femmes, dansent le halay accompagnés du davul et du zurna.
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.