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dealio

noun

dealio is spelled D-E-A-L-I-O: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 28 million words in written English, the 159,707th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, dealio means “Alternative form of dillio” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in dealio?

Letters6: D-E-A-L-I-O
In writingabout once in every 28 million words; the 159,707th 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 dealio?

Dealio appears about once in every 28 million words in written English, the 159,707th 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 dealio?

  • Australia

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

What does dealio mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    slangAlternative form of dillio.

    What's the dealio?

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

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