ducal
/djuːkəl/
"ducal" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“ducal” is uncommon English (frequency #60,042 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,042
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Of or pertaining to a duke, a duchess, or the duchy or dukedom they hold.
Corpus desk
Index EN-ducal · ducal · English
ducal · rank #60,042 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,042
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH duan
Nearest frequency peer: duan (-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 “ducal”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- draping
draping
39,962 corpus weight
- duan
duan
39,960 corpus weight
- ducal
ducal
39,959 corpus weight
- earnestness
earnestness
39,958 corpus weight
- ebbs
ebbs
39,957 corpus weight
- Ecclestone
Ecclestone
39,955 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “ducal” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ducal |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /djuːkəl/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #60,042 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “ducal” in English
Rare enough to double-check
ducal is uncommon English at frequency #60,042 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /djuːkəl/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Of or pertaining to a duke, a duchess, or the duchy or dukedom they hold.".
ducal has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Middle French ducal, from Latin ducālis. The correct English form is ducal, spelled D-U-C-A-L.
Definition
- 1Of or pertaining to a duke, a duchess, or the duchy or dukedom they hold.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ducal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ahead of the king’s coming, the Duke of Norfolk will arrive to guarantee order [...] and he will not come with an army, but only his ducal train.
Etymology
Middle French ducal, from Latin ducālis.
This word in other languages
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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