Delos
"delos" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Delos” is uncommon English (frequency #51,656 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,656
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An island of the Cyclades, Greece.
Corpus desk
Index EN-delos · Delos · English
Delos · rank #51,656 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,656
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH digitization
Nearest frequency peer: digitization (+2 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 “Delos”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- deflector
deflector
48,349 corpus weight
- dehumanizing
dehumanizing
48,348 corpus weight
- Delos
Delos
48,345 corpus weight
- digitization
digitization
48,343 corpus weight
- dinos
dinos
48,342 corpus weight
- disassembly
disassembly
48,341 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Delos” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Delos |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #51,656 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Delos” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Delos is uncommon English at frequency #51,656 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An island of the Cyclades, Greece.".
Delos doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Ancient Greek Δῆλος (Dêlos). The correct English form is Delos, spelled D-E-L-O-S.
Definition
- 1An island of the Cyclades, Greece.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Delos appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
We may also conclude that as it was the Ionic γένη of the Attic tetrapolis who in the main achieved the Ionization of Athens, so it was a branch of this same stock that settled at Delos […]
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Δῆλος (Dêlos).
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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