dada
/ˈdɑːdɑː/noun
dada is spelled D-A-D-A: 4 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 1.2 times per million words in written English, the 26,092nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, dada means “Father, dad” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of dada is dadas.
How many letters and syllables are in dada?
| Letters | 4: D-A-D-A |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.2 times per million words; the 26,092nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is dada?
Dada appears 1.2 times per million words in written English, the 26,092nd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce dada?
- UK /ˈdɑːdɑː/
Dada has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-dada.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-Dada.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with dada
Also written: da da (one word or two).
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with dada?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as dada (/ɑdɑ/).
Spelled with the same letters in another order: adda.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of dada
- dadas plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does dada mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Father, dad.
- 2
Alternative letter-case form of Dada (“cultural movement”).
noun
- 1
A cultural movement that began in Zürich, Switzerland during and as a reaction to World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1920, which primarily involved visual arts, literature (mainly poetry), theatre, and graphic design, and was characterized by deliberate irrationality, disillusionment, cynicism, nihilism, randomness, and rejection of the prevailing standards in art.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Dada in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense cultural movement – see also dadaism:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does dada come from?
Imitative of a child's first syllables; see dad.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).