didge

noun

didge is a noun meaning “didgeridoo” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled D-I-D-G-E, and it appears about once in every 59 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of didge is didges.

What does didge mean?

noun

1
informaldidgeridoo

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

Forms of didge

didges plural

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

How common is didge?

Didge appears about once in every 59 million words in written English, the 240,237th most frequent word form in the list.

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rarerper million words of written Englishmore common

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does didge come from?

Shortening.

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