daya

noun

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The verdict

“daya” is uncommon French (frequency #95,783 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#95,783
frequency rank, French
5,307
“D” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mare temporaire.

Corpus desk

Index FR-daya · daya · French

daya · rank #95,783 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #95,783
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH daylight

Nearest frequency peer: daylight (+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 « daya »

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 « daya » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for daya
PropertyValue
Headworddaya
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters4
Frequency rank#95,783
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « daya » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).dayatombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « daylight » (#95,784), « danubiennes » (#95,781), « dalmatien » (#95,780). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « daya » est au #95,783. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

daya is uncommon French at frequency #95,783 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Mare temporaire.".

No misspelling variants are generated for daya in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 daya, spelled D-A-Y-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    Mare temporaire.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. La hauteur d'eau dans les dayas n'a pas excédé les 60 cm.

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 "daya"?
"daya" is spelled D-A-Y-A.
What does "daya" mean?
As a noun, "daya" means: Mare temporaire.
What language does "daya" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

dens#95,788Daan#95,776dijk#95,801divi#95,809

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list