Dacre
/ˈdækɚ/
"dacre" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Dacre” is uncommon English (frequency #74,012 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,012
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A village and civil parish in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, previously in Eden district (OS grid ref NY4526).
Corpus desk
Index EN-dacre · Dacre · English
Dacre · rank #74,012 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,012
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH dagmar
Nearest frequency peer: dagmar (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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 “Dacre”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- culturing
culturing
25,994 corpus weight
- curmudgeon
curmudgeon
25,993 corpus weight
- Dacre
Dacre
25,989 corpus weight
- dagmar
dagmar
25,988 corpus weight
- Danaher
Danaher
25,987 corpus weight
- dander
dander
25,986 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Dacre” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Dacre |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈdækɚ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #74,012 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Dacre” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Dacre is uncommon English at frequency #74,012 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈdækɚ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Dacre, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is Dacre, spelled D-A-C-R-E.
Definition
- 1A village and civil parish in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, previously in Eden district (OS grid ref NY4526).
- 2A village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Harrogate borough (OS grid ref SE1960).
- 3A rural community in Southland, New Zealand
- 4A community in Bonnechere Valley township, Renfrew County, Ontario, Canada.
- 5A surname.
- 6An English barony.
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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