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“dailies” and “deities” are a confusable English pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#35,243
“dailies” frequency rank
#21,488
“deities” frequency rank
56731
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature dailies deities
Definition plural of daily plural of deity

Where the eye mixes dailies and deities

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 5 letters in sequence. dailies and deities follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVVCVVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

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Look-alike desk: dailies vs deities

A purely visual mix-up. dailies (/ˈdeɪliːz/) and deities (/ˈdiː.ɪ.tiz/) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 56731, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

dailies is recorded at frequency rank #35,243, classified as anoun, pronounced /ˈdeɪliːz/. deities is at rank #21,488, tagged as anoun, pronounced /ˈdiː.ɪ.tiz/.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 56731, this pair ranks #124,125 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of dailies vs deities

Shared letters: deis. Private to "dailies": al. Private to "deities": t.

"dailies" · 7 letters · shape CVVCVVC  ·  "deities" · 7 letters · shape CVVCVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • dailies ← adilies · daiiles · daileis · dailiess · dailise · daillies · daliies · ddailies
  • deities ← ddeities · deiites · deiteis · deitiess · deitise · deitties · detiies · dieties

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "dailies" for "deities" ever safe?
No. They are said differently (/ˈdeɪliːz/ versus /ˈdiː.ɪ.tiz/) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Frequency check: "dailies" vs "deities" - which ranks higher?
"deities" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #21,488 in our English list, against #35,243 for "dailies". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.

  • Full dictionary entry for "dailies" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "deities" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #124,125 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "dailies" and "deities" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "dailies vs dales". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #124,125 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list