dawa

\da.wa\

/\da.wa\/ noun

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The verdict

“dawa” is uncommon French (frequency #57,204 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#57,204
frequency rank, French
5,307
“D” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Invitation aux non-musulmans à écouter le message de l’islam.

Corpus desk

Index FR-dawa · dawa · French

dawa · rank #57,204 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #57,204
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH Descamps

Nearest frequency peer: Descamps (+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 « dawa »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dawa » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for dawa
PropertyValue
Headworddawa
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\da.wa\
Letters4
Frequency rank#57,204
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « dawa » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.dawatombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « Descamps » (#57,205), « dara » (#57,202), « descendantes » (#57,206). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « dawa » est au #57,204. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

dawa is uncommon French at frequency #57,204 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \da.wa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

No generated misspelling entries exist for dawa in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is dawa, spelled D-A-W-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    Invitation aux non-musulmans à écouter le message de l’islam.
  2. 2
    Bazar (au sens de désordre).

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how dawa appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Foutre le dawa ; mettre le dawa.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "dawa"?
"dawa" is spelled D-A-W-A. The IPA pronunciation is \da.wa\.
What does "dawa" mean?
As a noun, "dawa" means: Invitation aux non-musulmans à écouter le message de l’islam.
How do you pronounce "dawa"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "dawa" is \da.wa\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "dawa" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "dawa", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

dara#57,202busy#57,136braz#57,124bine#57,109

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list