Dunwoody
/ˈdʌnwʊdi/
"dunwoody" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Dunwoody” is uncommon English (frequency #67,385 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,385
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname.
Corpus desk
Index EN-dunwoody · Dunwoody · English
Dunwoody · rank #67,385 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,385
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH dwt
Nearest frequency peer: dwt (+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 “Dunwoody”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- dropship
dropship
32,622 corpus weight
- DSD
DSD
32,621 corpus weight
- dualistic
dualistic
32,619 corpus weight
- Dunwoody
Dunwoody
32,616 corpus weight
- dwt
dwt
32,615 corpus weight
- edification
edification
32,608 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Dunwoody” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Dunwoody |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈdʌnwʊdi/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #67,385 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Dunwoody” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Dunwoody is uncommon English at frequency #67,385 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈdʌnwʊdi/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for Dunwoody in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: Variant of Dinwiddie. The correct English form is Dunwoody, spelled D-U-N-W-O-O-D-Y.
Definition
- 1A surname.
- 2A city in DeKalb County, Georgia, United States.
Etymology
Variant of Dinwiddie.
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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