Which to use
“daily” is an adjective and “dais” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #899
- “daily” frequency rank
- #45,873
- “dais” frequency rank
- 46772
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | daily | dais |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | That occurs every day, or at least every working day. | A raised platform in a room for a high table, a seat of honour, a throne, or other dignified occupancy, such as ancestral statues; a similar platform supporting a lectern, pulpit, etc., which may be used to speak from. |
Where the eye mixes daily and dais
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence.
Look-alike desk: daily vs dais
These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: daily is /ˈdeɪli/ while dais is /ˈdeɪ.ɪs/. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (adjective vs noun), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 46772, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
daily is recorded at frequency rank #899, classified as anadj, pronounced /ˈdeɪli/. dais is at rank #45,873, tagged as anoun, pronounced /ˈdeɪ.ɪs/.
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 46772, this pair ranks #208,616 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of daily vs dais
Shared letters: adi. Private to "daily": ly. Private to "dais": s.
"daily" · 5 letters · shape CVVCV · "dais" · 4 letters · shape CVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "daily" for "dais" ever safe?
In ordinary English text, does "daily" or "dais" show up more?
Useful next steps
Eye-level mix-up between "daily" and "dais" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "daily" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "dais" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #208,616 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "daily" and "dais" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "dais vs Dalia". 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 #208,616 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.