dulled
/dʌld/
"dulled" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“dulled” is uncommon English (frequency #51,673 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,673
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Made dull.
Corpus desk
Index EN-dulled · dulled · English
dulled · rank #51,673 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,673
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH drummed
Nearest frequency peer: drummed (-2 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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “dulled”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- doting
doting
48,335 corpus weight
- dreamlike
dreamlike
48,332 corpus weight
- drummed
drummed
48,330 corpus weight
- dulled
dulled
48,328 corpus weight
- earthenware
earthenware
48,324 corpus weight
- egalitarian…
egalitarianism
48,323 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “dulled” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| 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
Rare enough to double-check
dulled is uncommon English at frequency #51,673 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /dʌld/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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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.