dormancy
/ˈdɔː.mən.si/
"dormancy" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“dormancy” is an uncommon English word, ranked #55,396 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #55,396
- frequency rank, English
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The state or characteristic of being dormant; quiet, inactive restfulness.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dormancy |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈdɔː.mən.si/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #55,396 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “dormancy” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for dormancy is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈdɔː.mən.si/. Corpus data places it at rank #55,396 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "The state or characteristic of being dormant; quiet, inactive restfulness.".
dormancy doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 dormancy, spelled D-O-R-M-A-N-C-Y.
Definition
- 1The state or characteristic of being dormant; quiet, inactive restfulness.
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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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Using “dormancy”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is D-O-R-M-A-N-C-Y - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈdɔː.mən.si/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.