Dordogne
"dordogne" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Dordogne” is uncommon English (frequency #71,462 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,462
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, southwestern France. Capital: Périgueux.
Corpus desk
Index EN-dordogne · Dordogne · English
Dordogne · rank #71,462 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,462
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH doughy
Nearest frequency peer: doughy (+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 “Dordogne”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- ditzy
ditzy
28,544 corpus weight
- Diu
Diu
28,543 corpus weight
- Dordogne
Dordogne
28,539 corpus weight
- doughy
doughy
28,537 corpus weight
- Douma
Douma
28,536 corpus weight
- Draghi
Draghi
28,535 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Dordogne” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Dordogne |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #71,462 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Dordogne” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Dordogne is uncommon English at frequency #71,462 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Dordogne, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From French Dordogne. The correct English form is Dordogne, spelled D-O-R-D-O-G-N-E.
Definition
- 1A department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, southwestern France. Capital: Périgueux.
- 2A long river in south-central and southwestern France, emptying into the Gironde estuary, flowing through the departments of Puy-de-Dôme, Corrèze, Lot, Dordogne and Gironde.
Etymology
From French Dordogne.
This word in other languages
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).