Duncombe
"duncombe" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Duncombe” is uncommon English (frequency #99,208 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,208
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname from Old English.
Corpus desk
Index EN-duncombe · Duncombe · English
Duncombe · rank #99,208 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,208
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH ducat
Nearest frequency peer: ducat (-3 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 “Duncombe”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- dragonstone
dragonstone
801 corpus weight
- druggy
druggy
797 corpus weight
- ducat
ducat
796 corpus weight
- Duncombe
Duncombe
793 corpus weight
- edify
edify
790 corpus weight
- eidetic
eidetic
786 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Duncombe” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Duncombe |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #99,208 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Duncombe” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Duncombe is uncommon English at frequency #99,208 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Duncombe, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Habitational surname, from Old English dūn (“hill”) + cumb (“valley”). The correct English form is Duncombe, spelled D-U-N-C-O-M-B-E.
Definition
- 1A surname from Old English.
- 2A city in Webster County, Iowa, United States.
Etymology
Habitational surname, from Old English dūn (“hill”) + cumb (“valley”).
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).