dims
/dɪmz/
"dims" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“dims” is uncommon English (frequency #67,370 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,370
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - third-person singular simple present indicative of dim
Corpus desk
Index EN-dims · dims · English
dims · rank #67,370 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,370
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH digitizer
Nearest frequency peer: digitizer (-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 “dims”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- derisively
derisively
32,638 corpus weight
- designee
designee
32,637 corpus weight
- digitizer
digitizer
32,632 corpus weight
- dims
dims
32,631 corpus weight
- Dirksen
Dirksen
32,630 corpus weight
- distributio…
distributional
32,629 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “dims” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dims |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /dɪmz/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #67,370 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “dims” in English
Rare enough to double-check
dims is uncommon English at frequency #67,370 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /dɪmz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "third-person singular simple present indicative of dim".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for dims, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 dims, spelled D-I-M-S.
Definition
- 1third-person singular simple present indicative of dim
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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