Darnley
/ˈdɑːn.li/
"darnley" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Darnley” is uncommon English (frequency #60,002 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,002
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A suburban area in south-west Glasgow, City of Glasgow council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS5359).
Corpus desk
Index EN-darnley · Darnley · English
Darnley · rank #60,002 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,002
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH Darian
Nearest frequency peer: Darian (-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 “Darnley”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- dappled
dappled
40,003 corpus weight
- Dardanelles
Dardanelles
40,002 corpus weight
- Darian
Darian
40,000 corpus weight
- Darnley
Darnley
39,999 corpus weight
- daylights
daylights
39,998 corpus weight
- deets
deets
39,996 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Darnley” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Darnley |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈdɑːn.li/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #60,002 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Darnley” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Darnley is uncommon English at frequency #60,002 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈdɑːn.li/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A suburban area in south-west Glasgow, City of Glasgow council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS5359).".
No misspelling variants are generated for Darnley in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is Darnley, spelled D-A-R-N-L-E-Y.
Definition
- 1A suburban area in south-west Glasgow, City of Glasgow council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS5359).
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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