dickies
/ˈdɪkiz/
"dickies" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“dickies” is uncommon English (frequency #90,362 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,362
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of dickie
Corpus desk
Index EN-dickies · dickies · English
dickies · rank #90,362 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,362
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH digester
Nearest frequency peer: digester (+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 “dickies”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Derna
Derna
9,645 corpus weight
- descript
descript
9,643 corpus weight
- desiccant
desiccant
9,642 corpus weight
- dickies
dickies
9,639 corpus weight
- digester
digester
9,638 corpus weight
- Dinsdale
Dinsdale
9,635 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “dickies” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dickies |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈdɪkiz/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #90,362 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “dickies” in English
Rare enough to double-check
dickies is uncommon English at frequency #90,362 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈdɪkiz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for dickies, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is dickies, spelled D-I-C-K-I-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of dickie
- 2plural of dicky
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).