distill
"distill" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“distill” is uncommon English (frequency #54,741 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,741
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - US standard spelling of distil.
Corpus desk
Index EN-distill · distill · English
distill · rank #54,741 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,741
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH disreputable
Nearest frequency peer: disreputable (-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 “distill”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Diggin
Diggin
45,263 corpus weight
- disastrously
disastrously
45,262 corpus weight
- disreputable
disreputable
45,261 corpus weight
- distill
distill
45,260 corpus weight
- distiller
distiller
45,259 corpus weight
- djinn
djinn
45,258 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “distill” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | distill |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #54,741 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “distill” in English
Rare enough to double-check
distill is uncommon English at frequency #54,741 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "US standard spelling of distil.".
distill doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is distill, spelled D-I-S-T-I-L-L.
Definition
- 1US standard spelling of distil.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how distill appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
There is ſome ſoule of goodneſſe in things euill, / VVould men obſeruingly diſtill it out.
My doctrine ſhall drop as the raine: my ſpeach ſhall diſtill as the deaw, as the ſmal raine vpon the tender herbe, and as the ſhowres vpon the graſſe.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).