Duracell
"duracell" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Duracell” is an uncommon English word, ranked #74,046 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #74,046
- frequency rank, English
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A battery of the Duracell brand.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Duracell |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #74,046 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Duracell” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for Duracell is 8 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #74,046 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "A battery of the Duracell brand.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Duracell in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: Trade name, from durable cell. The nickname for ginger-haired people comes from the distinctive copper-coloured end of the battery. The correct English form is Duracell, spelled D-U-R-A-C-E-L-L.
Definition
- 1A battery of the Duracell brand.
Etymology
Trade name, from durable cell. The nickname for ginger-haired people comes from the distinctive copper-coloured end of the battery.
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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Using “Duracell”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is D-U-R-A-C-E-L-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
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.