Dili
/ˈdiːli/
"dili" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Dili” is uncommon English (frequency #57,340 among 26,416 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,340
- frequency rank, English
- 26,416
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The capital city of East Timor.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Dili |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈdiːli/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #57,340 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Dili” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Dili is uncommon English at frequency #57,340 among 26,416 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈdiːli/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The capital city of East Timor.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Dili, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is Dili, spelled D-I-L-I.
Definition
- 1The capital city of East Timor.
This word in other languages
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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Using “Dili”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is D-I-L-I - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.