Dillingham
"dillingham" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Dillingham” is uncommon English (frequency #77,598 among 26,416 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,598
- frequency rank, English
- 26,416
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A surname.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Dillingham |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #77,598 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Dillingham” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Dillingham is uncommon English at frequency #77,598 among 26,416 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Dillingham, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Dullingham in East Cambridgeshire, dating back to Old English; from the personal name *Dulla + -ing + ham. The first element may be related to dæl (“divide, separate, pay over”), referring to a dealer. The correct English form is Dillingham, spelled D-I-L-L-I-N-G-H-A-M.
Definition
- 1A surname.
Etymology
From Dullingham in East Cambridgeshire, dating back to Old English; from the personal name *Dulla + -ing + ham. The first element may be related to dæl (“divide, separate, pay over”), referring to a dealer.
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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Using “Dillingham”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is D-I-L-L-I-N-G-H-A-M - 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.