Dabney
"dabney" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Dabney” is uncommon English (frequency #62,080 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,080
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname from Norman.
Corpus desk
Index EN-dabney · Dabney · English
Dabney · rank #62,080 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,080
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH cyclotron
Nearest frequency peer: cyclotron (-1 rank slots)
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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 “Dabney”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Crombie
Crombie
37,925 corpus weight
- cuvier
cuvier
37,923 corpus weight
- cyclotron
cyclotron
37,922 corpus weight
- Dabney
Dabney
37,921 corpus weight
- Dacia
Dacia
37,920 corpus weight
- Dalí
Dalí
37,917 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Dabney” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Dabney |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #62,080 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Dabney” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Dabney is uncommon English at frequency #62,080 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 7 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for Dabney in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: Habitational surname of Norman origin, from de (“of”) and the toponym Aubigny or Aubigné, from Medieval Latin Albiniacus, from the Roman gens, Latin Albinius. The correct English form is Dabney, spelled D-A-B-N-E-Y.
Definition
- 1A surname from Norman.
- 2A placename deriving from the surname:
- 3A placename deriving from the surname:
- 4A placename deriving from the surname:
- 5A placename deriving from the surname:
- 6A placename deriving from the surname:
- 7A placename deriving from the surname:
Etymology
Habitational surname of Norman origin, from de (“of”) and the toponym Aubigny or Aubigné, from Medieval Latin Albiniacus, from the Roman gens, Latin Albinius.
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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