Decalogue
/ˈdɛkəlɒɡ/
"decalogue" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Decalogue” is uncommon English (frequency #92,521 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,521
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The Ten Commandments.
Corpus desk
Index EN-decalogue · Decalogue · English
Decalogue · rank #92,521 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,521
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH deckhand
Nearest frequency peer: deckhand (+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 “Decalogue”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- DCd
DCd
7,484 corpus weight
- Dearden
Dearden
7,482 corpus weight
- Decalogue
Decalogue
7,480 corpus weight
- deckhand
deckhand
7,479 corpus weight
- delimit
delimit
7,476 corpus weight
- Democritus
Democritus
7,475 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Decalogue” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Decalogue |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈdɛkəlɒɡ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #92,521 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Decalogue” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Decalogue is uncommon English at frequency #92,521 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈdɛkəlɒɡ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The Ten Commandments.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Decalogue in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Middle French Décalogue, from Latin decalogus, from Ancient Greek δεκάλογος (dekálogos, from δέκα (déka, “ten”) + λόγος (lógos, “statement”)). Equivalent to deca- + -logue. The correct English form is Decalogue, spelled D-E-C-A-L-O-G-U-E.
Definition
- 1The Ten Commandments.
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French Décalogue, from Latin decalogus, from Ancient Greek δεκάλογος (dekálogos, from δέκα (déka, “ten”) + λόγος (lógos, “statement”)). Equivalent to deca- + -logue.
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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