Dumfriesshire
"dumfriesshire" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Dumfriesshire” is uncommon English (frequency #94,801 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,801
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A historical county of Scotland which was abolished in 1975 and absorbed into Dumfries and Galloway Region. Its county town was Dumfries.
Corpus desk
Index EN-dumfriesshire · Dumfriesshire · English
Dumfriesshire · rank #94,801 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,801
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH Dulcie
Nearest frequency peer: Dulcie (-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 “Dumfriesshire”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Drona
Drona
5,205 corpus weight
- Dul
Dul
5,202 corpus weight
- Dulcie
Dulcie
5,201 corpus weight
- Dumfriesshi…
Dumfriesshire
5,200 corpus weight
- Duna
Duna
5,199 corpus weight
- Durex
Durex
5,198 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Dumfriesshire” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Dumfriesshire |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #94,801 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Dumfriesshire” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Dumfriesshire is uncommon English at frequency #94,801 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A historical county of Scotland which was abolished in 1975 and absorbed into Dumfries and Galloway Region. Its county town was Dumfries.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Dumfriesshire in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Dumfries + -shire. The correct English form is Dumfriesshire, spelled D-U-M-F-R-I-E-S-S-H-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1A historical county of Scotland which was abolished in 1975 and absorbed into Dumfries and Galloway Region. Its county town was Dumfries.
Etymology
From Dumfries + -shire.
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
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).