dulled
/dʌld/
"dulled" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“dulled” is an uncommon English word, ranked #51,673 in English word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #51,673
- frequency rank, English
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Made dull.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dulled |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /dʌld/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #51,673 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “dulled” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for dulled is 6 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /dʌld/. Corpus data places it at rank #51,673 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Made dull.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for dulled, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is dulled, spelled D-U-L-L-E-D.
Definition
- 1Made dull.
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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Using “dulled”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is D-U-L-L-E-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /dʌld/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.