Downe
/daʊn/
"downe" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Downe” is uncommon English (frequency #74,043 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,043
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - County Down in Ireland; also Downshire.
Corpus desk
Index EN-downe · Downe · English
Downe · rank #74,043 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,043
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH drow
Nearest frequency peer: drow (+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 “Downe”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Dnipropetro…
Dnipropetrovsk
25,963 corpus weight
- Doig
Doig
25,962 corpus weight
- Downe
Downe
25,958 corpus weight
- drow
drow
25,956 corpus weight
- Duracell
Duracell
25,955 corpus weight
- durbar
durbar
25,954 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Downe” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Downe |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /daʊn/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #74,043 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Downe” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Downe is uncommon English at frequency #74,043 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /daʊn/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Downe, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is Downe, spelled D-O-W-N-E.
Definition
- 1County Down in Ireland; also Downshire.
- 2A village in the borough of Bromley, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ4361).
- 3A township in Cumberland County, New Jersey, United States.
- 4A surname.
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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