Dawlish
/ˈdɔːlɪʃ/
"dawlish" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Dawlish” is uncommon English (frequency #84,151 among 26,416 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,151
- frequency rank, English
- 26,416
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A coastal town and civil parish with a town council in Teignbridge district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX9676).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Dawlish |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈdɔːlɪʃ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #84,151 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Dawlish” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Dawlish is uncommon English at frequency #84,151 among 26,416 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈdɔːlɪʃ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A coastal town and civil parish with a town council in Teignbridge district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX9676).".
Dawlish has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is Dawlish, spelled D-A-W-L-I-S-H.
Definition
- 1A coastal town and civil parish with a town council in Teignbridge district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX9676).
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 “Dawlish”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is D-A-W-L-I-S-H - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈdɔːlɪʃ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.