DMT
"dmt" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“DMT” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #47,584) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #47,584
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Initialism of dimethyltryptamine, a naturally occurring psychedelic drug.
Corpus desk
Index EN-dmt · DMT · English
DMT · rank #47,584 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,584
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH disuse
Nearest frequency peer: disuse (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “DMT”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Dirac
Dirac
52,420 corpus weight
- dissing
dissing
52,419 corpus weight
- disuse
disuse
52,418 corpus weight
- DMT
DMT
52,417 corpus weight
- Dore
Dore
52,415 corpus weight
- douse
douse
52,413 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “DMT” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | DMT |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #47,584 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “DMT” sits in English frequency
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for DMT is neighbouring look-alikes ("do", "Dr", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #47,584 among 3,470 “D” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for DMT, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "do", "Dr", "DS", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is DMT, spelled D-M-T.
Definition
- 1Initialism of dimethyltryptamine, a naturally occurring psychedelic drug.
- 2Initialism of double mini trampoline, an aerial sport.
- 3Initialism of divemaster trainee.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how DMT appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A little over 50 years later – with LSD, psilocybin, psilocin, TMA, several compounds based on DMT and various other isomers – the number was up to almost 20.
McKenna was in school at UC Berkeley in 1966 when someone boosted a fifty-five-gallon drum of pure crystal DMT at Stanford that was headed for the army arsenal at Edgewood, Maryland, and released it into the dope-dealing machinery of the university.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 3, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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- "DMT" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "do". View pair
- Usage frequency rank #47,584 among English headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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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.