DeMille
"demille" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“DeMille” is uncommon English (frequency #57,974 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,974
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname from French.
Corpus desk
Index EN-demille · DeMille · English
DeMille · rank #57,974 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,974
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH Demeter
Nearest frequency peer: Demeter (-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 “DeMille”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- dau
dau
42,033 corpus weight
- Demeter
Demeter
42,028 corpus weight
- DeMille
DeMille
42,027 corpus weight
- denouement
denouement
42,025 corpus weight
- dines
dines
42,024 corpus weight
- divisor
divisor
42,022 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “DeMille” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | DeMille |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #57,974 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “DeMille” in English
Rare enough to double-check
DeMille is uncommon English at frequency #57,974 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname from French.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for DeMille, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Belgian French De Mille. The correct English form is DeMille, spelled D-E-M-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1A surname from French.
Etymology
Borrowed from Belgian French De Mille.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).