# daft vs Dante

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### daft
*adjective · IPA /dɑːft/ · frequency rank #16,207*
Foolish, silly, stupid.

### Dante
*name · IPA /ˈdænti/ · frequency rank #12,749*
A male given name from Italian, presumably in honor of the poet Dante Alighieri.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/vs/daft-vs-dante