Dacca
/ˈdækə/
"dacca" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Dacca” is an uncommon English word, ranked #78,506 in English word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #78,506
- frequency rank, English
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Archaic spelling of Dhaka.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Dacca |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈdækə/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #78,506 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Dacca” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for Dacca is 5 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈdækə/. Corpus data places it at rank #78,506 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Archaic spelling of Dhaka.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Dacca, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is Dacca, spelled D-A-C-C-A.
Definition
- 1Archaic spelling of Dhaka.
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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Using “Dacca”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is D-A-C-C-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈdækə/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.