dalles
/dælz/
"dalles" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“dalles” is uncommon English (frequency #74,873 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,873
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The rapids in a deep, narrow stream confined between the rock walls of a canyon or gorge.
Corpus desk
Index EN-dalles · dalles · English
dalles · rank #74,873 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,873
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH dancy
Nearest frequency peer: dancy (+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 “dalles”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- culls
culls
25,134 corpus weight
- cusps
cusps
25,132 corpus weight
- dalles
dalles
25,128 corpus weight
- dancy
dancy
25,127 corpus weight
- Danko
Danko
25,126 corpus weight
- Daughtry
Daughtry
25,124 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “dalles” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dalles |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /dælz/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #74,873 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “dalles” in English
Rare enough to double-check
dalles is uncommon English at frequency #74,873 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /dælz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for dalles in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From the French dalle. The correct English form is dalles, spelled D-A-L-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1The rapids in a deep, narrow stream confined between the rock walls of a canyon or gorge.
- 2A steep-sided part of a stream channel, near the dalles proper, marked by clefts, ravines, or gorges.
Etymology
From the French dalle.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).