dai
[ˈdai]
The verdict
“dai” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #30,992) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #30,992
- frequency rank, German
- 2,764
- “D” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs dare
Corpus desk
Index DE-dai · dai · German
dai · rank #30,992 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,992
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,764
- PHOTO-FINISH Dahme
Nearest frequency peer: Dahme (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “dai”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- cognac
cognac
69,014 corpus weight
- comments
comments
69,013 corpus weight
- Dahme
Dahme
69,010 corpus weight
- dai
dai
69,009 corpus weight
- darstellten
darstellten
69,007 corpus weight
- Dialogen
Dialogen
69,003 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “dai” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dai |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈdai] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #30,992 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “dai” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for dai is neighbouring look-alikes ("du", "de", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced [ˈdai]. Frequency #30,992 among 2,764 “D” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
dai doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "du", "de", "do", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is dai, spelled D-A-I.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs dare
- 22. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs dare
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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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- "dai" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "du". View pair
- Usage frequency rank #30,992 among German headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more German words in the "D" letter cohort. D–Z browse
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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.