Davila
"davila" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Davila” is uncommon English (frequency #79,435 among 26,416 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,435
- frequency rank, English
- 26,416
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A surname from Spanish, of Spanish or Galician origin
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Davila |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #79,435 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Davila” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Davila is uncommon English at frequency #79,435 among 26,416 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname from Spanish, of Spanish or Galician origin".
Zero misspellings are on record for Davila in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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: From Spanish Dávila (“from Ávila”) or from Galician Davila (“from Vila”). The correct English form is Davila, spelled D-A-V-I-L-A.
Definition
- 1A surname from Spanish, of Spanish or Galician origin
Etymology
From Spanish Dávila (“from Ávila”) or from Galician Davila (“from Vila”).
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 “Davila”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is D-A-V-I-L-A - 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.