dormancy
/ˈdɔː.mən.si/
"dormancy" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“dormancy” is uncommon English (frequency #55,396 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,396
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The state or characteristic of being dormant; quiet, inactive restfulness.
Corpus desk
Index EN-dormancy · dormancy · English
dormancy · rank #55,396 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,396
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH Dostoyevsky
Nearest frequency peer: Dostoyevsky (+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 “dormancy”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- disfigureme…
disfigurement
44,610 corpus weight
- dissociate
dissociate
44,607 corpus weight
- dormancy
dormancy
44,605 corpus weight
- Dostoyevsky
Dostoyevsky
44,604 corpus weight
- downriver
downriver
44,603 corpus weight
- dressmaker
dressmaker
44,602 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “dormancy” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “dormancy” in English
Rare enough to double-check
dormancy is uncommon English at frequency #55,396 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈdɔː.mən.si/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dormancy appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[N]ow the big Thanksgiving dinner which they had eaten was beginning to work upon them a spell of dormancy.
Synonyms
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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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