Dunleavy
"dunleavy" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Dunleavy” is uncommon English (frequency #65,075 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,075
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname from Irish.
Corpus desk
Index EN-dunleavy · Dunleavy · English
Dunleavy · rank #65,075 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,075
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH dumpy
Nearest frequency peer: dumpy (-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 “Dunleavy”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- DTI
DTI
34,929 corpus weight
- dumpy
dumpy
34,927 corpus weight
- Dunleavy
Dunleavy
34,926 corpus weight
- Dunstable
Dunstable
34,925 corpus weight
- Durden
Durden
34,923 corpus weight
- dux
dux
34,922 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Dunleavy” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Dunleavy |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #65,075 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Dunleavy” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Dunleavy is uncommon English at frequency #65,075 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname from Irish.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Dunleavy in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Mac Duinnshléibhe (“son of Donn Sléibhe”), a personal name composed of the elements donn (“brown”) and sléibhe, genitive form of sliabh (“mountain”). The correct English form is Dunleavy, spelled D-U-N-L-E-A-V-Y.
Definition
- 1A surname from Irish.
Etymology
Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Mac Duinnshléibhe (“son of Donn Sléibhe”), a personal name composed of the elements donn (“brown”) and sléibhe, genitive form of sliabh (“mountain”).
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).