Delamere
"delamere" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Delamere” is uncommon English (frequency #96,925 among 26,416 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,925
- frequency rank, English
- 26,416
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A village in Delamere and Oakmere parish, Cheshire West and Chester district, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ5669).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Delamere |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #96,925 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Delamere” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Delamere is uncommon English at frequency #96,925 among 26,416 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for Delamere in our index, 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, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: * The placename senses are from French de (“of”) la (“the”) mer (“sea”). * As an English and French surname, prefixed variant of Mear, itself related to the noun mere (both senses, meaning "pond" and "boundary"), a variant of Mayer, and a variant of Lemer. … The correct English form is Delamere, spelled D-E-L-A-M-E-R-E.
Definition
- 1A village in Delamere and Oakmere parish, Cheshire West and Chester district, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ5669).
- 2A community in French River municipality, Ontario, Canada.
- 3A locality in the Northern Territory, Australia.
- 4A locality on the Fleurieu Peninsula, South Australia.
- 5A surname.
Etymology
* The placename senses are from French de (“of”) la (“the”) mer (“sea”). * As an English and French surname, prefixed variant of Mear, itself related to the noun mere (both senses, meaning "pond" and "boundary"), a variant of Mayer, and a variant of Lemer. Compare Delamare, de la Mare.
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 “Delamere”
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- The one correct English spelling is D-E-L-A-M-E-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.