Darlinghurst
"darlinghurst" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Darlinghurst” is uncommon English (frequency #82,212 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,212
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An inner-city suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Corpus desk
Index EN-darlinghurst · Darlinghurst · English
Darlinghurst · rank #82,212 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,212
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH Daoist
Nearest frequency peer: Daoist (-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 “Darlinghurst”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- dace
dace
17,793 corpus weight
- Dalzell
Dalzell
17,792 corpus weight
- Daoist
Daoist
17,790 corpus weight
- Darlinghurst
Darlinghurst
17,789 corpus weight
- Daron
Daron
17,788 corpus weight
- deadhead
deadhead
17,785 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Darlinghurst” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Darlinghurst |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #82,212 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Darlinghurst” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Darlinghurst is uncommon English at frequency #82,212 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An inner-city suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Darlinghurst in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Taken from the surname Darling + the toponymic suffix hurst (“grove”). Named in honor of Eliza Darling, the wife of local governor Ralph Darling. The correct English form is Darlinghurst, spelled D-A-R-L-I-N-G-H-U-R-S-T.
Definition
- 1An inner-city suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Etymology
Taken from the surname Darling + the toponymic suffix hurst (“grove”). Named in honor of Eliza Darling, the wife of local governor Ralph Darling.
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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