Dudek
"dudek" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Dudek” is uncommon English (frequency #90,389 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,389
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname from Polish or Slovak.
Corpus desk
Index EN-dudek · Dudek · English
Dudek · rank #90,389 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,389
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH drivable
Nearest frequency peer: drivable (-3 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 “Dudek”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- downrange
downrange
9,621 corpus weight
- dragster
dragster
9,617 corpus weight
- drainpipe
drainpipe
9,616 corpus weight
- drivable
drivable
9,615 corpus weight
- Dudek
Dudek
9,612 corpus weight
- Eartha
Eartha
9,606 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Dudek” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Dudek |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #90,389 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Dudek” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Dudek is uncommon English at frequency #90,389 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname from Polish or Slovak.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Dudek in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Polish and Slovak Dudek. The correct English form is Dudek, spelled D-U-D-E-K.
Definition
- 1A surname from Polish or Slovak.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Dudek appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On Feb. 10, on the third floor of the Social Security Administration’s Baltimore-area headquarters, Leland Dudek unfurled a 4-foot-wide roll of paper that extended to 20 feet in length.
Etymology
Borrowed from Polish and Slovak Dudek.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).