dah
/dɑː/
"dah" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“dah” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #24,721) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #24,721
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The spoken representation of a dash in radio and telegraph Morse code.
Corpus desk
Index EN-dah · dah · English
dah · rank #24,721 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,721
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH cyst
Nearest frequency peer: cyst (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Frequency neighbours of confusable “dah”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- custodian
custodian
75,282 corpus weight
- cyst
cyst
75,281 corpus weight
- dah
dah
75,280 corpus weight
- decisively
decisively
75,279 corpus weight
- degeneration
degeneration
75,278 corpus weight
- delinquent
delinquent
75,277 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “dah” against nearest ranked English headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dah |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /dɑː/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #24,721 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “dah”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for dah is neighbouring look-alikes ("do", "Dr", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /dɑː/. Frequency #24,721 among 3,470 “D” headwords. Gloss: "The spoken representation of a dash in radio and telegraph Morse code.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for dah in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "do", "Dr", "de", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: Imitative The correct English form is dah, spelled D-A-H.
Definition
- 1The spoken representation of a dash in radio and telegraph Morse code.
Etymology
Imitative
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).