Delores
/dɪˈlɔːɹɪz/
"delores" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Delores” is uncommon English (frequency #56,056 among 26,416 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,056
- frequency rank, English
- 26,416
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A female given name from Spanish, variant of Dolores.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Delores |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /dɪˈlɔːɹɪz/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #56,056 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Delores” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Delores is uncommon English at frequency #56,056 among 26,416 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /dɪˈlɔːɹɪz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A female given name from Spanish, variant of Dolores.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Delores in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is Delores, spelled D-E-L-O-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1A female given name from Spanish, variant of Dolores.
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 “Delores”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is D-E-L-O-R-E-S - 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.