Delly
"delly" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Delly” is uncommon English (frequency #87,198 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,198
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Obsolete form of Delhi.
Corpus desk
Index EN-delly · Delly · English
Delly · rank #87,198 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,198
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH Delphic
Nearest frequency peer: Delphic (+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 “Delly”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- decarboxyla…
decarboxylase
12,807 corpus weight
- decriminali…
decriminalisation
12,806 corpus weight
- defilement
defilement
12,805 corpus weight
- Delly
Delly
12,803 corpus weight
- Delphic
Delphic
12,802 corpus weight
- demiurge
demiurge
12,801 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Delly” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Delly |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #87,198 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Delly” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Delly is uncommon English at frequency #87,198 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Obsolete form of Delhi.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Delly in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 Delly, spelled D-E-L-L-Y.
Definition
- 1Obsolete form of Delhi.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Delly appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
ADVERTING to the letter from the Governor of Pulo Penang, brought by Mr. Anderson, I, Tanko Sultan Panglima, who govern the kingdom of Delly and its dependencies of Langkat, Bulu China, Perchoot, and other States, being extremely desirous to improve the commerce with Pulo Penang, and to preserve a friendly relation with the Governor of that place, make th…
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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