Davina
/dəˈviːnə/
"davina" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Davina” is uncommon English (frequency #51,053 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,053
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A female given name from Hebrew, a feminine form of David.
Corpus desk
Index EN-davina · Davina · English
Davina · rank #51,053 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,053
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH cuttlefish
Nearest frequency peer: cuttlefish (-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 “Davina”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- culpa
culpa
48,952 corpus weight
- cuneiform
cuneiform
48,951 corpus weight
- cuttlefish
cuttlefish
48,950 corpus weight
- Davina
Davina
48,948 corpus weight
- decanter
decanter
48,946 corpus weight
- deconstruct
deconstruct
48,944 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Davina” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Davina |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /dəˈviːnə/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #51,053 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Davina” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Davina is uncommon English at frequency #51,053 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /dəˈviːnə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A female given name from Hebrew, a feminine form of David.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Davina, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From David + -ina. The correct English form is Davina, spelled D-A-V-I-N-A.
Definition
- 1A female given name from Hebrew, a feminine form of David.
Etymology
From David + -ina.
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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