dere
/dɪə/
"dere" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“dere” is uncommon English (frequency #53,493 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,493
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hurt; harm; injury.
Corpus desk
Index EN-dere · dere · English
dere · rank #53,493 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,493
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH Desdemona
Nearest frequency peer: Desdemona (+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 “dere”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- delimited
delimited
46,512 corpus weight
- delish
delish
46,511 corpus weight
- dere
dere
46,508 corpus weight
- Desdemona
Desdemona
46,507 corpus weight
- destin
destin
46,506 corpus weight
- diorama
diorama
46,504 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “dere” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dere |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /dɪə/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #53,493 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “dere” in English
Rare enough to double-check
dere is uncommon English at frequency #53,493 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /dɪə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Hurt; harm; injury.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for dere in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English dere, from Old English dæru, daru (“injury, hurt, harm, damage, calamity; loss, deprivation”), from Proto-West Germanic *daru, from Proto-Germanic *darō (“damage, injury”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰórh₃-eh₂, from *dʰerh₃- (“to leap, s… The correct English form is dere, spelled D-E-R-E.
Definition
- 1Hurt; harm; injury.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dere appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
She did him dere.
Etymology
From Middle English dere, from Old English dæru, daru (“injury, hurt, harm, damage, calamity; loss, deprivation”), from Proto-West Germanic *daru, from Proto-Germanic *darō (“damage, injury”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰórh₃-eh₂, from *dʰerh₃- (“to leap, spring”). Cognate with Middle Dutch dare, dere, Low German dere, Old High German tara, Avestan 𐬛𐬁𐬭𐬁 (dārā), Sanskrit धारा (dhā́rā).
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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