dunlap
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "dunlap", 6-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Wiktionary, and usage frequency ranked against an open word-frequency list covering the top 100,000 English words. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "dunlap" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "dunlap" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
Dunlap is aEnglishname. It means: A surname. Pronounced /ˈdʌnlæp/. Often confused with Dunlop and Duncan.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Dunlap |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Name |
| IPA | /ˈdʌnlæp/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #36,117 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for Dunlap is 6 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈdʌnlæp/. Corpus data places it at rank #36,117 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Dunlap, with forms such as "ddunlap", "dnulap", and "dulnap". 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.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "Dunlop", "Duncan", "Dunham", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is Dunlap, spelled D-U-N-L-A-P, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1A surname.
- 2A male given name transferred from the surname.
- 3An unincorporated community in Fresno County, California, United States.
- 4A village in Peoria County, Illinois, United States.
- 5A census-designated place in Elkhart County, Indiana, United States.
- 6A small city in Harrison County and Crawford County, Iowa, United States.
- 7A small city in Morris County, Kansas, United States.
- 8An unincorporated community in Grundy County, Missouri, United States.
- 9A census-designated place in Hamilton County, Ohio, United States.
- 10A neighbourhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
- 11A city, the county seat of Sequatchie County, Tennessee, United States.
- 12A neighbourhood of Seattle, Washington, United States.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddunlap,dnulap,dulnap,dunalp,dunlapp,dunllap,dunlpa,dunnlap,udnlap
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Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Dunlap
Misspelling Variants of "Dunlap"
Frequency rank: #36,117 in English
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