Debora
/ˈdɛbəɹə/
"debora" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Debora” is uncommon English (frequency #80,369 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,369
- 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 less common spelling of Deborah.
Corpus desk
Index EN-debora · Debora · English
Debora · rank #80,369 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,369
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH Deboer
Nearest frequency peer: Deboer (-1 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 “Debora”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- deadbolt
deadbolt
19,635 corpus weight
- deary
deary
19,634 corpus weight
- Deboer
Deboer
19,633 corpus weight
- Debora
Debora
19,632 corpus weight
- defeatism
defeatism
19,630 corpus weight
- demain
demain
19,627 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Debora” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Debora |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈdɛbəɹə/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #80,369 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Debora” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Debora is uncommon English at frequency #80,369 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈdɛbəɹə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A female given name from Hebrew, a less common spelling of Deborah.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Debora in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is Debora, spelled D-E-B-O-R-A.
Definition
- 1A female given name from Hebrew, a less common spelling of Deborah.
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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