Dahlgren
"dahlgren" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Dahlgren” is uncommon English (frequency #69,774 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,774
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname from Swedish.
Corpus desk
Index EN-dahlgren · Dahlgren · English
Dahlgren · rank #69,774 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,774
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH dado
Nearest frequency peer: dado (-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 “Dahlgren”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- cudgel
cudgel
30,232 corpus weight
- Cumbernauld
Cumbernauld
30,230 corpus weight
- dado
dado
30,228 corpus weight
- Dahlgren
Dahlgren
30,227 corpus weight
- Dalston
Dalston
30,226 corpus weight
- Danziger
Danziger
30,225 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Dahlgren” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Dahlgren |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #69,774 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Dahlgren” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Dahlgren is uncommon English at frequency #69,774 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for Dahlgren in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Swedish Dahlgren, from dahl (“valley”) + gren (“branch”). The correct English form is Dahlgren, spelled D-A-H-L-G-R-E-N.
Definition
- 1A surname from Swedish.
- 2A township in Hamilton County, Illinois, United States.
- 3A village in Hamilton County, Illinois, United States.
- 4A township in Carver County, Minnesota, United States.
- 5An unincorporated community in King George County, Virginia, United States.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Dahlgren appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Great River Energy and Minnesota Valley Electric Cooperative (MVEC) (together, the Applicants) submit this Route Permit Application (Application) to the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (Commission) for a Route Permit to build a new 4.3-mile 115-kilovolt (kV) double-circuit high voltage transmission line (HVTL or Transmission Line) in Laketown and Da…
Etymology
Borrowed from Swedish Dahlgren, from dahl (“valley”) + gren (“branch”).
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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