dicta
/ˈdɪk.tə/
"dicta" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“dicta” is uncommon English (frequency #88,270 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,270
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of dictum
Corpus desk
Index EN-dicta · dicta · English
dicta · rank #88,270 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,270
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH dhow
Nearest frequency peer: dhow (-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 “dicta”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- destructive…
destructiveness
11,734 corpus weight
- Dhillon
Dhillon
11,733 corpus weight
- dhow
dhow
11,732 corpus weight
- dicta
dicta
11,731 corpus weight
- dieback
dieback
11,729 corpus weight
- Dilworth
Dilworth
11,727 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “dicta” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dicta |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈdɪk.tə/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #88,270 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “dicta” in English
Rare enough to double-check
dicta is uncommon English at frequency #88,270 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈdɪk.tə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of dictum".
dicta doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is dicta, spelled D-I-C-T-A.
Definition
- 1plural of dictum
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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