# Dee vs did

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### Dee
*name · IPA /diː/ · frequency rank #9,031*
A river in Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland that flows about 145 km (90 mi) from the Cairngorm Mountains to the North Sea at Aberdeen.

### did
*verb · IPA /dɪd/ · frequency rank #114*
simple past of do

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