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dishpan

noun

dishpan is spelled D-I-S-H-P-A-N: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 34 million words in written English, the 178,202nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, dishpan means “A large basin or pan with a flat bottom in which dishes are washed” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of dishpan is dishpans.

How many letters and syllables are in dishpan?

Letters7: D-I-S-H-P-A-N
In writingabout once in every 34 million words; the 178,202nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is dishpan?

Dishpan appears about once in every 34 million words in written English, the 178,202nd most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Forms of dishpan

  • dishpans plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does dishpan mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A large basin or pan with a flat bottom in which dishes are washed.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does dishpan come from?

From dish + pan.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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