Dili
/ˈdiːli/
"dili" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Dili” is uncommon English (frequency #57,340 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,340
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The capital city of East Timor.
Corpus desk
Index EN-dili · Dili · English
Dili · rank #57,340 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,340
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH dhamma
Nearest frequency peer: dhamma (-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 “Dili”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- destitution
destitution
42,665 corpus weight
- Deville
Deville
42,663 corpus weight
- dhamma
dhamma
42,662 corpus weight
- Dili
Dili
42,661 corpus weight
- Dinh
Dinh
42,659 corpus weight
- disclaim
disclaim
42,658 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Dili” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “Dili” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Dili is uncommon English at frequency #57,340 among 3,470 “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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