dauphine
"dauphine" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“dauphine” is uncommon English (frequency #67,351 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,351
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The wife of the dauphin; dauphiness.
Corpus desk
Index EN-dauphine · dauphine · English
dauphine · rank #67,351 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,351
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH Dalglish
Nearest frequency peer: Dalglish (-2 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 “dauphine”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- cytosol
cytosol
32,655 corpus weight
- daiquiri
daiquiri
32,653 corpus weight
- Dalglish
Dalglish
32,652 corpus weight
- dauphine
dauphine
32,650 corpus weight
- debauched
debauched
32,648 corpus weight
- dehydrate
dehydrate
32,646 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “dauphine” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dauphine |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #67,351 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “dauphine” in English
Rare enough to double-check
dauphine is uncommon English at frequency #67,351 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The wife of the dauphin; dauphiness.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for dauphine, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from French dauphine, equivalent to dauphin + -ine. The correct English form is dauphine, spelled D-A-U-P-H-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1The wife of the dauphin; dauphiness.
Etymology
Borrowed from French dauphine, equivalent to dauphin + -ine.
This word in other languages
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).