daylong
"daylong" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“daylong” is uncommon English (frequency #90,341 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,341
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Which lasts a day, or approximately so.
Corpus desk
Index EN-daylong · daylong · English
daylong · rank #90,341 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,341
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH dawah
Nearest frequency peer: dawah (-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 “daylong”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- dashi
dashi
9,663 corpus weight
- daunt
daunt
9,662 corpus weight
- dawah
dawah
9,661 corpus weight
- daylong
daylong
9,660 corpus weight
- Deano
Deano
9,659 corpus weight
- Degen
Degen
9,657 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “daylong” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | daylong |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #90,341 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “daylong” in English
Rare enough to double-check
daylong is uncommon English at frequency #90,341 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Which lasts a day, or approximately so.".
Zero misspellings are on record for daylong in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From day + -long. The correct English form is daylong, spelled D-A-Y-L-O-N-G.
Definition
- 1Which lasts a day, or approximately so.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how daylong appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The Hang En tour involves a difficult daylong trek over limestone mountain paths and along riverbeds to the remote indigenous village of Ban Doong.
Etymology
From day + -long.
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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