DPA
\de.pe.a\
The verdict
“DPA” is uncommon French (frequency #64,380 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,380
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Date prévue d’accouchement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dpa · DPA · French
DPA · rank #64,380 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,380
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dominera
Nearest frequency peer: dominera (-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 « DPA »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- divide
divide
35,624 corpus weight
- DMS
DMS
35,623 corpus weight
- dominera
dominera
35,622 corpus weight
- DPA
DPA
35,621 corpus weight
- dragueurs
dragueurs
35,620 corpus weight
- dragée
dragée
35,619 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « DPA » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | DPA |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.pe.a\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #64,380 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « DPA » en français
Rare enough to double-check
DPA is uncommon French at frequency #64,380 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \de.pe.a\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Date prévue d’accouchement.".
DPA has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is DPA, spelled D-P-A.
Definition
- 1Date prévue d’accouchement.
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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