Dorking
"dorking" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Dorking” is uncommon English (frequency #65,064 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,064
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A Dorking fowl.
Corpus desk
Index EN-dorking · Dorking · English
Dorking · rank #65,064 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,064
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH Donn
Nearest frequency peer: Donn (-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 “Dorking”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- distended
distended
34,942 corpus weight
- dogfish
dogfish
34,940 corpus weight
- Donn
Donn
34,938 corpus weight
- Dorking
Dorking
34,937 corpus weight
- dosa
dosa
34,936 corpus weight
- doublet
doublet
34,935 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Dorking” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Dorking |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #65,064 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Dorking” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Dorking is uncommon English at frequency #65,064 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A Dorking fowl.".
Dorking has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is Dorking, spelled D-O-R-K-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1A Dorking fowl.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Dorking appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Thus, a poultry-breeder describes a hen (colored Dorking) crowing like a cock, only somewhat more harshly, as a cockerel crows, and with an enormous comb, larger than is ever seen in the male
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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