dines
/daɪnz/
"dines" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“dines” is uncommon English (frequency #57,977 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,977
- 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 dine
Corpus desk
Index EN-dines · dines · English
dines · rank #57,977 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,977
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH denouement
Nearest frequency peer: denouement (-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 “dines”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Demeter
Demeter
42,028 corpus weight
- DeMille
DeMille
42,027 corpus weight
- denouement
denouement
42,025 corpus weight
- dines
dines
42,024 corpus weight
- divisor
divisor
42,022 corpus weight
- Doane
Doane
42,020 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “dines” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dines |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /daɪnz/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #57,977 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “dines” in English
Rare enough to double-check
dines is uncommon English at frequency #57,977 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /daɪnz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "third-person singular simple present indicative of dine".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for dines, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is dines, spelled D-I-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1third-person singular simple present indicative of dine
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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