Dalglish
"dalglish" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Dalglish” is uncommon English (frequency #67,349 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,349
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
Corpus desk
Index EN-dalglish · Dalglish · English
Dalglish · rank #67,349 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,349
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH daiquiri
Nearest frequency peer: daiquiri (-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 “Dalglish”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- cush
cush
32,657 corpus weight
- cytosol
cytosol
32,655 corpus weight
- daiquiri
daiquiri
32,653 corpus weight
- Dalglish
Dalglish
32,652 corpus weight
- dauphine
dauphine
32,650 corpus weight
- debauched
debauched
32,648 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Dalglish” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Dalglish |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #67,349 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Dalglish” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Dalglish is uncommon English at frequency #67,349 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname from Scottish Gaelic.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Dalglish, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Variant of Dalgleish. The correct English form is Dalglish, spelled D-A-L-G-L-I-S-H.
Definition
- 1A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
Etymology
Variant of Dalgleish.
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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