denouement
"denouement" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“denouement” is uncommon English (frequency #57,976 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,976
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative spelling of dénouement.
Corpus desk
Index EN-denouement · denouement · English
denouement · rank #57,976 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,976
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH dines
Nearest frequency peer: dines (+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 “denouement”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- 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
- Doane
Doane
42,020 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “denouement” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | denouement |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #57,976 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “denouement” in English
Rare enough to double-check
denouement is uncommon English at frequency #57,976 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative spelling of dénouement.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for denouement, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is denouement, spelled D-E-N-O-U-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Alternative spelling of dénouement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how denouement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The denouement is the moment when all of the knots of a story are untied, […] But the denouement should not be confused with the end of a story.
Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.
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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).