DTA

noun

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The verdict

“DTA” is uncommon French (frequency #90,644 among 404,891 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#90,644
frequency rank, French
404,891
“D” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Directive territoriale d’aménagement : en France, document d’urbanisme de planification stratégique sur un échelon supra-régional, à moyen et long terme.

Key facts for DTA
PropertyValue
HeadwordDTA
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters3
Frequency rank#90,644
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “DTA” sits in French frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). DTA lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
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Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

DTA is uncommon French at frequency #90,644 among 404,891 “D” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for DTA, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is DTA, spelled D-T-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    Directive territoriale d’aménagement : en France, document d’urbanisme de planification stratégique sur un échelon supra-régional, à moyen et long terme.
  2. 2
    Démence de type Alzheimer.

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 "DTA"?
"DTA" is spelled D-T-A.
What does "DTA" mean?
As a noun, "DTA" means: Directive territoriale d’aménagement : en France, document d’urbanisme de planification stratégique sur un échelon supra-régional, à moyen et long terme.
What language does "DTA" come from?
"DTA" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Using “DTA”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is D-T-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words

Other uncommon French words near this rank

Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list