Daye
"daye" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Daye” is uncommon English (frequency #77,580 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,580
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A county-level city of Huangshi, Hubei, China.
Corpus desk
Index EN-daye · Daye · English
Daye · rank #77,580 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,580
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH Dawe
Nearest frequency peer: Dawe (-1 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 “Daye”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
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cyanogen
22,425 corpus weight
- danza
danza
22,424 corpus weight
- darr
darr
22,423 corpus weight
- Dawe
Dawe
22,422 corpus weight
- Daye
Daye
22,421 corpus weight
- decisiveness
decisiveness
22,418 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Daye” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Daye |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #77,580 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Daye” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Daye is uncommon English at frequency #77,580 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A county-level city of Huangshi, Hubei, China.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Daye in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 大冶 (Dàyě). The correct English form is Daye, spelled D-A-Y-E.
Definition
- 1A county-level city of Huangshi, Hubei, China.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Daye appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vuchang commands over ten Cities, as Vuhang, Vuchang, Kiayu, Puki, Hienning, Cungyang, Tungching, Hingque, Taye, Tungxan.
The outbreak in Daye, a city of more than 900,000 people, was confirmed as a case of the H5N6 strain of the virus, the ministry said in the statement on its website.
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 大冶 (Dàyě).
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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