daiquiri
/ˈdæ.kə.ɹi/
"daiquiri" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“daiquiri” is uncommon English (frequency #67,348 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,348
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A cocktail of rum, lemon or lime juice and sugar, sometimes with fruit added.
Corpus desk
Index EN-daiquiri · daiquiri · English
daiquiri · rank #67,348 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,348
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH Dalglish
Nearest frequency peer: Dalglish (+1 rank slots)
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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 “daiquiri”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- curvilinear
curvilinear
32,658 corpus weight
- cush
cush
32,657 corpus weight
- cytosol
cytosol
32,655 corpus weight
- daiquiri
daiquiri
32,653 corpus weight
- Dalglish
Dalglish
32,652 corpus weight
- dauphine
dauphine
32,650 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “daiquiri” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | daiquiri |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈdæ.kə.ɹi/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #67,348 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “daiquiri” in English
Rare enough to double-check
daiquiri is uncommon English at frequency #67,348 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈdæ.kə.ɹi/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A cocktail of rum, lemon or lime juice and sugar, sometimes with fruit added.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for daiquiri, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: Originated 1915–1920; after Daiquirí, a town on the south coast of Cuba. The correct English form is daiquiri, spelled D-A-I-Q-U-I-R-I.
Definition
- 1A cocktail of rum, lemon or lime juice and sugar, sometimes with fruit added.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how daiquiri appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Or maybe you just believe that limes are for summer, best reserved for daiquiris and mojitos. That last argument is debatable, but defensible. In any case, El Presidente is less daiquiri and more Manhattan, less summer and more winter.
Etymology
Originated 1915–1920; after Daiquirí, a town on the south coast of Cuba.
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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