dulls
/dʌlz/
"dulls" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“dulls” is uncommon English (frequency #82,249 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,249
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - third-person singular simple present indicative of dull
Corpus desk
Index EN-dulls · dulls · English
dulls · rank #82,249 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,249
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH dulcimer
Nearest frequency peer: dulcimer (-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 “dulls”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- dryad
dryad
17,756 corpus weight
- DTR
DTR
17,755 corpus weight
- duffer
duffer
17,754 corpus weight
- dulcimer
dulcimer
17,753 corpus weight
- dulls
dulls
17,752 corpus weight
- Dunwich
Dunwich
17,750 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “dulls” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dulls |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /dʌlz/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #82,249 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “dulls” in English
Rare enough to double-check
dulls is uncommon English at frequency #82,249 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /dʌlz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "third-person singular simple present indicative of dull".
No generated misspelling entries exist for dulls in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is dulls, spelled D-U-L-L-S.
Definition
- 1third-person singular simple present indicative of 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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