dall
"dall" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“dall” is uncommon English (frequency #56,694 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,694
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A tile with an incised surface.
Corpus desk
Index EN-dall · dall · English
dall · rank #56,694 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,694
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH Dansk
Nearest frequency peer: Dansk (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “dall”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- cumulatively
cumulatively
43,314 corpus weight
- cyanobacter…
cyanobacteria
43,311 corpus weight
- dall
dall
43,307 corpus weight
- Dansk
Dansk
43,306 corpus weight
- darkside
darkside
43,304 corpus weight
- Dato
Dato
43,303 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “dall” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dall |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #56,694 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “dall” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
dall is uncommon English at frequency #56,694 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A tile with an incised surface.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for dall, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Compare French dalle, dallage. The correct English form is dall, spelled D-A-L-L.
Definition
- 1A tile with an incised surface.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dall appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] for such machine-made slate "dalls," or tiles, as perhaps we might call them, would soon be valued by the architect and builder for the roofs of many other classes of buildings as well as ecclesiastical ones.
[…] tiling. Thus arose those admirable roofs known in France as "en dallage," of which one most instructive example to both engineer and architect may be seen in those of the clerestory roofs of Nôtre Dame at Paris. The "dalls" being hand wrought[…]
Etymology
Compare French dalle, dallage.
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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