Dugald
"dugald" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Dugald” is uncommon English (frequency #92,554 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,554
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A male given name.
Corpus desk
Index EN-dugald · Dugald · English
Dugald · rank #92,554 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,554
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH Dubya
Nearest frequency peer: Dubya (-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 “Dugald”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- drachma
drachma
7,453 corpus weight
- dreamboat
dreamboat
7,451 corpus weight
- Dubya
Dubya
7,448 corpus weight
- Dugald
Dugald
7,447 corpus weight
- dyskinesia
dyskinesia
7,444 corpus weight
- Dzogchen
Dzogchen
7,443 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Dugald” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Dugald |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #92,554 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Dugald” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Dugald is uncommon English at frequency #92,554 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for Dugald in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is Dugald, spelled D-U-G-A-L-D.
Definition
- 1A male given name.
- 2A community in the Rural Municipality of Springfield, Manitoba, Canada.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Dugald appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"Country?" replied Cuddie; "ou, the country's weel eneugh, and it werena that dour deevil, Calver'se, ( they ca' him Dundee now) that's stirring about yet in the Highlands, they say, with a' the Donalds, and Duncans, and Dugalds, that ever wore bottomless breeks, driving about wi' him, to set things asteer again, - - -
One aim of the move [from Nine Elms] had been to speed up the overhaul of the company's locomotive stock and to reduce costs with more efficient workshop facilities, in what Dugald Drummond claimed to be "the most complete and up-to-date works owned by any railway company".
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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