daily D₂A₁I₁L₁Y₄

DAILY names something tied to every day: it may be produced, consumed, used, or done on a daily schedule. Its frequency rank is 862, with a frequency count of 14,647 and a Zipf score of 5.07. DAILY is accepted as a Wordle guess and appears in the answer set, but that does not identify a particular puzzle date.

What is the DAILY meaning?

• DAILY means something produced, consumed, used, or done every day.
• The five-letter word scores 9 points in Scrabble before board premiums.
• DAILY has no anagrams; rearranging A, D, I, L, and Y produces no other word in its anagram set.
• Wordle accepts DAILY as a guess and includes it in its answer set, without tying it to a specific day's solution.

How does DAILY score 9 Scrabble points?

DAILY's base Scrabble score is 9: D is worth 2, A, I, and L are worth 1 each, and Y is worth 4. The Y supplies nearly half the total, while D adds the only other tile above one point. That makes the final letter the scoring hinge, not the opening D.

Look for a premium square for Y before committing the play. Board placement changes the result, so 9 is the rack's base total, not a promise of the final score. DAILY appears in ENABLE, NWL2023, and Collins; check your game's word list if you play under a different lexicon.

Which words are one letter away from DAILY?

Seven one-letter neighbors are DAIRY, DAISY, DALLY, GAILY, DOILY, DRILY, and HAILY. The changes are easy to scan: DAIRY swaps L for R, while DOILY changes A to O. HAILY is less familiar, so don't assume that everyday recognition predicts whether a game will accept a word.

Beyond the DAILY meaning, the spelling also gives you a sound-based route: the rhyme set has 12 entries sharing the “ily” ending, including family, easily, lily, and happily. That group is broader than exact one-letter neighbors, so use the two lists for different kinds of wordplay.