dai
\daj\
The verdict
“dai” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #33,634) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #33,634
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui concerne les Dai, groupe ethnique du sud-est asiatique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dai · dai · French
dai · rank #33,634 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,634
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH célébrait
Nearest frequency peer: célébrait (-1 rank slots)
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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « dai »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- Cullen
Cullen
66,370 corpus weight
- curieuses
curieuses
66,369 corpus weight
- célébrait
célébrait
66,368 corpus weight
- dai
dai
66,367 corpus weight
- Daudet
Daudet
66,366 corpus weight
- deo
deo
66,365 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « dai » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dai |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \daj\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #33,634 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « dai »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for dai is neighbouring look-alikes ("de", "du", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced \daj\. Frequency #33,634 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Gloss: "Qui concerne les Dai, groupe ethnique du sud-est asiatique.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for dai, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "de", "du", "dr", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is dai, spelled D-A-I.
Definition
- 1Qui concerne les Dai, groupe ethnique du sud-est asiatique.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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