dado

/[ˈdado]/ noun

Letters

4 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

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Confusables

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dado is aGermannoun. It means: der Würfel: Spielgerät, das nach einem Wurf auf einer waagerechten Ebene eine von mehreren unterscheidbaren stabilen Ruhelagen einnimmt und in vielen Spielen als Zufallsgenerator dient Pronounced [ˈdado].

Key facts for dado
PropertyValue
Headworddado
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈdado]
Letters4
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

dado is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for dado is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈdado]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for dado in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is dado, spelled D-A-D-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    der Würfel: Spielgerät, das nach einem Wurf auf einer waagerechten Ebene eine von mehreren unterscheidbaren stabilen Ruhelagen einnimmt und in vielen Spielen als Zufallsgenerator dient
  2. 2
    die Schraubenmutter: mit einem Innengewinde versehene und aufschraubbare Gegenstück einer Schraube, eines Gewindebolzens oder einer Welle
  3. 3
    der Suppenwürfel: quaderförmig gepresste Mischung aus Salz, Geschmacksverstärker, getrockneter Würze und Zuckerarten, die mit Fett, meist gehärtetem Pflanzenöl gebunden wird

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "dado"?
"dado" is spelled D-A-D-O. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈdado].
What does "dado" mean?
As a noun, "dado" means: der Würfel: Spielgerät, das nach einem Wurf auf einer waagerechten Ebene eine von mehreren unterscheidbaren stabilen Ruhelagen einnimmt und in vielen Spielen als Zufallsgenerator dient
How do you pronounce "dado"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "dado" is [ˈdado]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "dado" come from?
"dado" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.