Damocles
"damocles" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Damocles” is uncommon English (frequency #75,786 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,786
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A courtier said to have lived at the court of Dionysius II of Syracuse.
Corpus desk
Index EN-damocles · Damocles · English
Damocles · rank #75,786 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,786
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH Daniil
Nearest frequency peer: Daniil (+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 “Damocles”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Czechoslova…
Czechoslovakian
24,221 corpus weight
- daimyo
daimyo
24,219 corpus weight
- Damocles
Damocles
24,215 corpus weight
- Daniil
Daniil
24,214 corpus weight
- decentralize
decentralize
24,210 corpus weight
- Decima
Decima
24,209 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Damocles” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Damocles |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #75,786 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Damocles” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Damocles is uncommon English at frequency #75,786 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A courtier said to have lived at the court of Dionysius II of Syracuse.".
Damocles doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Latin Dāmoclēs. The correct English form is Damocles, spelled D-A-M-O-C-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1A courtier said to have lived at the court of Dionysius II of Syracuse.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin Dāmoclēs.
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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