DGAC
\de.ʒe.a.se\
The verdict
“DGAC” is uncommon French (frequency #59,943 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,943
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Administration française regroupant l’ensemble des services de l’État chargés de réglementer et de superviser la sécurité aérienne, le transport aérien et les activités de l’aviation civile en géné...
Corpus desk
Index FR-dgac · DGAC · French
DGAC · rank #59,943 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,943
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH diagonal
Nearest frequency peer: diagonal (+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 « DGAC »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- descriptives
descriptives
40,061 corpus weight
- desigual
desigual
40,060 corpus weight
- DGAC
DGAC
40,058 corpus weight
- diagonal
diagonal
40,057 corpus weight
- diapos
diapos
40,056 corpus weight
- diario
diario
40,055 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « DGAC » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | DGAC |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \de.ʒe.a.se\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #59,943 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « DGAC » en français
Rare enough to double-check
DGAC is uncommon French at frequency #59,943 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \de.ʒe.a.se\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Administration française regroupant l’ensemble des services de l’État chargés de réglementer et de superviser la sécurité aérienne, le transport aérien et les activités de l’aviation civile en géné...".
DGAC doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 DGAC, spelled D-G-A-C.
Definition
- 1Administration française regroupant l’ensemble des services de l’État chargés de réglementer et de superviser la sécurité aérienne, le transport aérien et les activités de l’aviation civile en général.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how DGAC appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La direction générale de l’aviation civile (DGAC) a demandé mardi aux compagnies aériennes de renoncer à la moitié de leur programme de vols vendredi, en raison d’un appel à la grève du SNCTA, principal syndicat des contrôleurs aériens.
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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