diary
/ˈdaɪ.ə.ɹi/noun, verb
diary is spelled D-I-A-R-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is diarrhe: about 30 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 132 of all searches for the word. Diary is a noun meaning “A daily log of experiences, especially those of the writer”. The plural of diary is diaries.
How many letters and syllables are in diary?
| Letters | 5: D-I-A-R-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 12 times per million words; the 6,138th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, diarrhe, about 30 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell diary?
Diary is spelled D-I-A-R-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 132 of the searches for diary in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is diary?
Diary appears 12 times per million words in written English, the 6,138th 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 diary?
- /ˈdaɪ.ə.ɹi/
- /ˈdaɪ.ɹi/
Diary has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-diary.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with diary?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as diary.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: dairy.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of diary
- diaries plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- diarying participle, present
- diaried participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does diary mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A daily log of experiences, especially those of the writer.
They kept separate diaries. His was on paper and her diary was on her computer's hard drive.
- 2
CanadaUKA personal organizer or appointment diary.
verb
- 1
To keep a diary or journal.
adjective
- 1
obsoleteLasting for one day.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Diary in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense daily log of experiences:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | journal intime |
| German | Tagebuch |
| Portuguese | diário |
| Spanish | diario, diario personal, dietario |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does diary come from?
From Latin diārium (“a daily allowance for soldiers, in Late Latin also ‘diary’”), neuter of *diārius, from diēs (“a day”) (whence also journal). Cognate with Spanish diario (“daily; diary”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).