dockside
"dockside" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“dockside” is uncommon English (frequency #64,322 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,322
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The area near a dock, or next to a docked ship.
Corpus desk
Index EN-dockside · dockside · English
dockside · rank #64,322 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,322
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH domine
Nearest frequency peer: domine (+3 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 “dockside”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- diddly
diddly
35,685 corpus weight
- disembarking
disembarking
35,684 corpus weight
- disquieting
disquieting
35,683 corpus weight
- dockside
dockside
35,679 corpus weight
- domine
domine
35,676 corpus weight
- dopaminergic
dopaminergic
35,673 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “dockside” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dockside |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #64,322 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “dockside” in English
Rare enough to double-check
dockside is uncommon English at frequency #64,322 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The area near a dock, or next to a docked ship.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for dockside, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From dock + -side. The correct English form is dockside, spelled D-O-C-K-S-I-D-E.
Definition
- 1The area near a dock, or next to a docked ship.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dockside appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On the other side of the road the double track admits to a complicated rail network totalling some 78 miles of dockside track that carries more express passenger traffic than any other completely unsignalled layout in the country, in addition to a huge tonnage of freight.
Sitting on the dockside at Oban, watching the to-ing and fro-ing in the harbour on a perfect summer's eve, I reflect on a trip which has taken me through our busiest cities to traverse the country's main lines, as well as explore some of the furthest extremities that were literally out on a limb.
Etymology
From dock + -side.
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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