daily

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The English entry for daily is 5 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈdeɪli/. Corpus data places it at rank #899 in overall English word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for daily, with forms such as "adily", "dailly", and "dailyy". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "day", "DIY", "dal", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English dayly, from Old English dæġlīċ, from Proto-West Germanic *dagalīk, from Proto-Germanic *dagalīkaz (“daily”), equivalent to day + -ly. Cognate with Scots dayly, daly (“daily”), German Low German dagelk, dagelik (“daily”), Dutch dagelijks … Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is daily, spelled D-A-I-L-Y, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.