# lido

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈlaɪ.dəʊ/ · frequency rank #37,543

## Definitions
1. Part of the sea by a beach sectioned off for swimming and other aquatic activities.
2. An outdoor swimming pool.

## Etymology
After Lido (Lido di Venezia), an island with a long beach in Venice, Italy, site of Europe’s first modern beach resort (1857), from Italian lido (“beach, shore”), from Latin litus (“shore”) (hence also English littoral (“of the shore”)). The name is aspirational, evoking glamorous Venice; compare Venetian Pool, another outdoor pool named for Venice.

## Easily confused with
- **lo** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lido-vs-lo)
- **lie** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lido-vs-lie)
- **lit** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lido-vs-lit)
- **lip** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lido-vs-lip)
- **lil** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lido-vs-lil)
- **Liz** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lido-vs-liz)
- **lin** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lido-vs-lin)
- **Liu** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lido-vs-liu)
- **Liv** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lido-vs-liv)
- **lim** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lido-vs-lim)
- **loo** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lido-vs-loo)
- **LSD** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lido-vs-lsd)
- **lis** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lido-vs-lis)
- **Luo** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lido-vs-luo)
- **Lod** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lido-vs-lod)
- **LIF** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lido-vs-lif)
- **like** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lido-vs-like)
- **life** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lido-vs-life)
- **live** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lido-vs-live)
- **line** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lido-vs-line)

## Common misspellings (5)
`ildo`, `ldio`, `liddo`, `liod`, `llido`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/lido