dens

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The English entry for dens is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /dɛnz/. Corpus data places it at rank #34,854 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "plural of den".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for dens, with forms such as "ddens", "denns", and "denss". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "DS", "don", "DNA", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is dens, spelled D-E-N-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.