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daily

dai·ly/ˈdeɪli/adjective, noun, verb, adverb

daily is spelled D-A-I-L-Y, 2 syllables: dai·ly. The wrong spelling people search most is dayly: about 140 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 192 of all searches for the word. Daily is an adjective meaning “That occurs or attends every day, or at least every working day”.

How many letters and syllables are in daily?

Letters5: D-A-I-L-Y
Syllables2: dai·ly
In writing117 times per million words; the 904th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched1; the most searched, dayly, about 140 Bing searches a month (all of them)

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).

How do you spell daily?

Daily is spelled D-A-I-L-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 191 of the searches for daily in either form.

dailythe right spelling26,640 searches a month
daylyy in place of i140 searches a month

Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.

How common is daily?

Daily appears 117 times per million words in written English, the 904th 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 daily?

  • /ˈdeɪli/

Daily has 2 syllables, split dai·ly in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-daily.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of daily

  • dailies plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • dailying participle, present
  • dailied participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does daily mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    That occurs or attends every day, or at least every working day.

    Near-synonyms: circadianly, diurnally

  2. 2

    archaicDiurnal: by daylight.

noun

  1. 1

    Something that is produced, consumed, used, or done every day.

  2. 2

    A newspaper or comic strip etc. that is published every day.

  3. 3

    UKA cleaner who comes in daily.

  4. 4

    UKslangA daily disposable.

  5. 5

    A quest in a massively multiplayer online game that can be repeated every day for cumulative rewards.

  6. 6

    UScolloquialA daily driver.

  7. 7

    USRaw, unedited footage traditionally developed overnight and viewed by the cast and crew the next day.

  8. 8

    The daily revenue associated with a cinematic release.

    The new Disney movie is doing incredible numbers in the dailies.

verb

  1. 1

    UScolloquialTo drive an automobile frequently, on a daily basis, for regular and mundane tasks.

  2. 2

    UScolloquialTo use, especially of a computer or operating system, for everyday tasks.

adverb

  1. 1

    quotidianly, every day

  2. 2

    diurnally, by daylight

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Daily in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchquotidien, journalier (that occurs every day), quotidiennement, journellement, tous les jours, chaque jour (every day)
Germantäglich (that occurs every day), jeden Tag (every day), Tageszeitung (newspaper)
Portuguesediário, quotidiano (that occurs every day), diariamente (every day), diarista (cleaner)
Spanishdiario (that occurs every day), diariamente, cotidianamente (every day)

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 daily come from?

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 (“daily”), German täglich (“daily”), Danish daglig (“daily”), Swedish daglig (“daily”), Icelandic daglegur (“daily”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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