dearie me
/ˌdɪəɹiˈmiː/
"dearie-me" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“dearie me” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative form of dear me.
Corpus desk
Index EN-dearie-me · dearie me · English
dearie me · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "D" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dearie me |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | /ˌdɪəɹiˈmiː/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “dearie me” in English
Rare enough to double-check
dearie me is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as aninterjection, transcribed /ˌdɪəɹiˈmiː/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative form of dear me.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for dearie me, 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, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 dearie me, spelled D-E-A-R-I-E- -M-E.
Definition
- 1Alternative form of dear me.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.