duomo
/ˈdwəʊməʊ/
"duomo" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“duomo” is uncommon English (frequency #56,717 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,717
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A cathedral, or a cathedral-like building, especially one in Italy.
Corpus desk
Index EN-duomo · duomo · English
duomo · rank #56,717 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,717
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH Dukakis
Nearest frequency peer: Dukakis (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “duomo”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- dray
dray
43,287 corpus weight
- DTC
DTC
43,286 corpus weight
- Dukakis
Dukakis
43,285 corpus weight
- duomo
duomo
43,284 corpus weight
- duopoly
duopoly
43,283 corpus weight
- Edgeworth
Edgeworth
43,278 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “duomo” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | duomo |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈdwəʊməʊ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #56,717 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “duomo” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
duomo is uncommon English at frequency #56,717 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈdwəʊməʊ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A cathedral, or a cathedral-like building, especially one in Italy.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for duomo, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Learned borrowing from Italian duomo. Doublet of dome and domus. The correct English form is duomo, spelled D-U-O-M-O.
Definition
- 1A cathedral, or a cathedral-like building, especially one in Italy.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how duomo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Of tower or duomo, sunny sweet.
There was no doubt as to the direction, with the campanile of the duomo as a beacon.
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Italian duomo. Doublet of dome and domus.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 3, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.