dualistic
"dualistic" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“dualistic” is uncommon English (frequency #67,382 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,382
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Of or relating to dualism.
Corpus desk
Index EN-dualistic · dualistic · English
dualistic · rank #67,382 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,382
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH DSD
Nearest frequency peer: DSD (-2 rank slots)
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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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “dualistic”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
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distributional
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32,621 corpus weight
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32,619 corpus weight
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Dunwoody
32,616 corpus weight
- dwt
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32,615 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “dualistic” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dualistic |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #67,382 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “dualistic” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
dualistic is uncommon English at frequency #67,382 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Of or relating to dualism.".
No misspelling variants are generated for dualistic in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From dual + -istic. The correct English form is dualistic, spelled D-U-A-L-I-S-T-I-C.
Definition
- 1Of or relating to dualism.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dualistic appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A second difficulty that has distanced Mary from the communion of saints […] is the strategy that casts her as the feminine ideal and thus sets her up as the model for all other women. Those who take this approach invariably use a dualistic anthropology that divides male and female into watertight compartments, elevating sex to an ontological principle th…
Etymology
From dual + -istic.
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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