Dulwich
/ˈdʌlɪt͡ʃ/
"dulwich" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Dulwich” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #48,207. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,207
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A suburban area of Greater London in the borough of Southwark and borough of Lambeth.
Corpus desk
Index EN-dulwich · Dulwich · English
Dulwich · rank #48,207 · 11 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,207
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH drupal
Nearest frequency peer: drupal (-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 “Dulwich”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- droll
droll
51,798 corpus weight
- drudgery
drudgery
51,797 corpus weight
- drupal
drupal
51,796 corpus weight
- Dulwich
Dulwich
51,794 corpus weight
- durian
durian
51,792 corpus weight
- e6
e6
51,790 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Dulwich” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Dulwich |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈdʌlɪt͡ʃ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #48,207 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Dulwich” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Dulwich (IPA /ˈdʌlɪt͡ʃ/), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #48,207 among 3,470 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Dulwich, with forms such as "ddulwich", "dluwich", and "duliwch". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is Dulwich, spelled D-U-L-W-I-C-H.
Definition
- 1A suburban area of Greater London in the borough of Southwark and borough of Lambeth.
- 2A suburb of Adelaide, South Australia.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Dulwich appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
His client, Thurston, lived in a gold-brick semi on a quiet Dulwich street lined with sticky lime trees.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddulwich
- dluwich
- duliwch
- dullwich
- dulwcih
- dulwicch
- dulwichh
- dulwihc
- dulwwich
- duwlich
- udlwich
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Dulwich - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Dulwich", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- 11 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #48,207 among English headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more English words in the "D" letter cohort. D–Z browse
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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.