dai
"dai" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“dai” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #20,328) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #20,328
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A wet nurse; a midwife.
Corpus desk
Index EN-dai · dai · English
dai · rank #20,328 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,328
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH customize
Nearest frequency peer: customize (-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 “dai”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- crotch
crotch
79,676 corpus weight
- customize
customize
79,674 corpus weight
- dai
dai
79,673 corpus weight
- Dartmouth
Dartmouth
79,672 corpus weight
- dashing
dashing
79,671 corpus weight
- departmental
departmental
79,670 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “dai” 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 | dai |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #20,328 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “dai”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for dai is neighbouring look-alikes ("do", "Dr", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #20,328 among 3,470 “D” headwords. Gloss: "A wet nurse; a midwife.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for dai, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. 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: Borrowed from Hindi दाई (dāī), from Sanskrit. The correct English form is dai, spelled D-A-I.
Definition
- 1A wet nurse; a midwife.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dai appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Kausalya, she learnt, was his dai, the one who had breast-fed and looked after him.
Etymology
Borrowed from Hindi दाई (dāī), from Sanskrit.
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).