Dobro
"dobro" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Dobro” is uncommon English (frequency #92,540 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,540
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A type of acoustic guitar with a metal resonator set into its body.
Corpus desk
Index EN-dobro · Dobro · English
Dobro · rank #92,540 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,540
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH docudrama
Nearest frequency peer: docudrama (+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 “Dobro”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- distributab…
distributable
7,464 corpus weight
- Dobro
Dobro
7,461 corpus weight
- docudrama
docudrama
7,460 corpus weight
- doeth
doeth
7,459 corpus weight
- Dolezal
Dolezal
7,458 corpus weight
- dolman
dolman
7,457 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Dobro” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Dobro |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #92,540 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Dobro” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Dobro is uncommon English at frequency #92,540 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A type of acoustic guitar with a metal resonator set into its body.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Dobro, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Originally a trademark; a contraction of Dopyera brothers, the inventors. The correct English form is Dobro, spelled D-O-B-R-O.
Definition
- 1A type of acoustic guitar with a metal resonator set into its body.
Etymology
Originally a trademark; a contraction of Dopyera brothers, the inventors.
Synonyms
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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).