doppelgänger
"doppelganger" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“doppelgänger” is uncommon English (frequency #68,158 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,158
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative spelling of doppelganger.
Corpus desk
Index EN-doppelganger · doppelgänger · English
doppelgänger · rank #68,158 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,158
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH dogshit
Nearest frequency peer: dogshit (-2 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 “doppelgänger”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- disenfranch…
disenfranchise
31,849 corpus weight
- disinclined
disinclined
31,847 corpus weight
- dogshit
dogshit
31,845 corpus weight
- doppelgänger
doppelgänger
31,843 corpus weight
- dorsally
dorsally
31,841 corpus weight
- dreamworld
dreamworld
31,838 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “doppelgänger” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | doppelgänger |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #68,158 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “doppelgänger” in English
Rare enough to double-check
doppelgänger is uncommon English at frequency #68,158 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative spelling of doppelganger.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for doppelgänger, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is doppelgänger, spelled D-O-P-P-E-L-G-Ä-N-G-E-R.
Definition
- 1Alternative spelling of doppelganger.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how doppelgänger appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Robin’s doppelgänger looked Robin up and down for a moment, then seemed to come to a decision.
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 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).