Doylestown
"doylestown" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Doylestown” is uncommon English (frequency #82,242 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,242
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A village in Wayne County, Ohio, United States.
Corpus desk
Index EN-doylestown · Doylestown · English
Doylestown · rank #82,242 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,242
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH dowsing
Nearest frequency peer: dowsing (-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 “Doylestown”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- documentari…
documentarian
17,763 corpus weight
- dowsing
dowsing
17,760 corpus weight
- Doylestown
Doylestown
17,759 corpus weight
- drippy
drippy
17,757 corpus weight
- dryad
dryad
17,756 corpus weight
- DTR
DTR
17,755 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Doylestown” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Doylestown |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #82,242 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Doylestown” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Doylestown is uncommon English at frequency #82,242 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Doylestown, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Doyle + -s- + town. * (Ohio): Laid out in 1827 by William Doyle. * (Pennsylvania): In March 1745 William Doyle obtained a license to build a tavern on what is now the northwest corner of Dyers Road and Coryell’s Ferry Road (now Main and State Streets),… The correct English form is Doylestown, spelled D-O-Y-L-E-S-T-O-W-N.
Definition
- 1A village in Wayne County, Ohio, United States.
- 2A borough, the county seat of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States.
- 3A township in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
- 4A village in Columbia County, Wisconsin, United States.
Etymology
From Doyle + -s- + town. * (Ohio): Laid out in 1827 by William Doyle. * (Pennsylvania): In March 1745 William Doyle obtained a license to build a tavern on what is now the northwest corner of Dyers Road and Coryell’s Ferry Road (now Main and State Streets), known as “William Doyle’s Tavern”; its strategic location allowed the hamlet to grow into a village.
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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