Dail
"dail" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Dail” is uncommon English (frequency #68,977 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,977
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The lower house of the Irish parliament
Corpus desk
Index EN-dail · Dail · English
Dail · rank #68,977 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,977
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH Dandridge
Nearest frequency peer: Dandridge (+2 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.
Long-tail ranks near “Dail”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- crooning
crooning
31,034 corpus weight
- Dail
Dail
31,024 corpus weight
- Dandridge
Dandridge
31,022 corpus weight
- darknet
darknet
31,020 corpus weight
- Dasgupta
Dasgupta
31,019 corpus weight
- Daws
Daws
31,017 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Dail” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Dail |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #68,977 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Dail” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Dail is uncommon English at frequency #68,977 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The lower house of the Irish parliament".
Dail doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Irish Dáil, short for Dáil Éireann. The correct English form is Dail, spelled D-A-I-L.
Definition
- 1The lower house of the Irish parliament
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Dail appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I dreamt that Ruairi Quinn was smokin' marijuana in the Dail. Barry Desmond handing Frenchies out to scuts in Fianna Fail.
Etymology
Borrowed from Irish Dáil, short for Dáil Éireann.
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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).