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daith

/dɑθ/noun

daith is spelled D-A-I-T-H: 5 letters. It appears about once in every 69 million words in written English, the 262,293rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, daith means “An ear piercing in the inner cartilage just above the earhole” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of daith is daiths.

How many letters and syllables are in daith?

Letters5: D-A-I-T-H
In writingabout once in every 69 million words; the 262,293rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is daith?

Daith appears about once in every 69 million words in written English, the 262,293rd 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 daith?

  • /dɑθ/
  • /deɪθ/

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

Forms of daith

  • daiths plural
  • daith piercing

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

What does daith mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    An ear piercing in the inner cartilage just above the earhole.

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

Where does daith come from?

From Hebrew דעת (da'at, “knowledge”), possibly because of the belief that a ring daith piercing only allows intelligent speech to be heard.

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

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