Devil's Island
"devil-s-island" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Devil's Island” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as a proper noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Former name of Bermuda: an archipelago of North America in the Atlantic.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Devil's Island |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Devil's Island” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for Devil's Island is 14 letters long, classified as a proper noun. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for Devil's Island in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: Devil or devil and island * (Bermuda): Calque from Portuguese. From the calls of the cahow (“Bermuda petrel”), mistaken for calls of ghosts and spirits * (French Guiana): Calque of French Île du Diable From the notorious conditions on the penal exile island The correct English form is Devil's Island, spelled D-E-V-I-L-'-S- -I-S-L-A-N-D.
Definition
- 1Former name of Bermuda: an archipelago of North America in the Atlantic.
- 2A former settlement, a penal colony in Devil's Island, Salvation Islands, Kourou, French Guyana, South America in the Caribean.
- 3An island of the Salvation Islands, Caribbean, Atlantic.
Etymology
Devil or devil and island * (Bermuda): Calque from Portuguese. From the calls of the cahow (“Bermuda petrel”), mistaken for calls of ghosts and spirits * (French Guiana): Calque of French Île du Diable From the notorious conditions on the penal exile island
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Devil's Island”
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- The one correct English spelling is D-E-V-I-L-'-S- -I-S-L-A-N-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.