dateline
"dateline" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“dateline” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #42,082. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,082
- frequency rank, English
- 26,416
- “D” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A line at the beginning of a document (such as a newspaper article) stating the place of origin and typically the date, and often written in capital letters.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dateline |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #42,082 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “dateline” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around dateline, anoun. Corpus frequency is #42,082 among 26,416 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A line at the beginning of a document (such as a newspaper article) stating the place of origin and typically the date, and often written in capital letters.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for dateline, with forms such as "adteline", "daetline", and "dateilne". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From date + line. The correct English form is dateline, spelled D-A-T-E-L-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1A line at the beginning of a document (such as a newspaper article) stating the place of origin and typically the date, and often written in capital letters.
Etymology
From date + line.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- adteline
- daetline
- dateilne
- datelien
- datelinne
- datelline
- datelnie
- datleine
- datteline
- ddateline
- dtaeline
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dateline - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Using “dateline”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is D-A-T-E-L-I-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.