DBT
"dbt" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“DBT” is uncommon English (frequency #61,403 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,403
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Initialism of dialectical behavior therapy.
Corpus desk
Index EN-dbt · DBT · English
DBT · rank #61,403 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,403
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH declination
Nearest frequency peer: declination (+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 “DBT”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- crosstalk
crosstalk
38,606 corpus weight
- cussed
cussed
38,603 corpus weight
- DBT
DBT
38,598 corpus weight
- declination
declination
38,596 corpus weight
- defacing
defacing
38,594 corpus weight
- defensivene…
defensiveness
38,592 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “DBT” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | DBT |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #61,403 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “DBT” in English
Rare enough to double-check
DBT is uncommon English at frequency #61,403 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for DBT in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is DBT, spelled D-B-T.
Definition
- 1Initialism of dialectical behavior therapy.
- 2Initialism of dry bulb temperature.
- 3Initialism of digital breast tomosynthesis.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how DBT appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) in 2011. Given how effectively DBT detects cancer, it may eventually become the new gold standard in breast imaging.
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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