Dursley
"dursley" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Dursley” is uncommon English (frequency #91,455 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,455
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A market town and civil parish with a town council in Stroud district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref ST7598).
Corpus desk
Index EN-dursley · Dursley · English
Dursley · rank #91,455 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,455
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH Dunkley
Nearest frequency peer: Dunkley (-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 “Dursley”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- dropoff
dropoff
8,553 corpus weight
- Dunkley
Dunkley
8,547 corpus weight
- Dursley
Dursley
8,546 corpus weight
- earthing
earthing
8,544 corpus weight
- ecstatically
ecstatically
8,543 corpus weight
- Edgecombe
Edgecombe
8,541 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Dursley” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Dursley |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #91,455 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Dursley” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Dursley is uncommon English at frequency #91,455 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Dursley, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Old English Deorsigeslēah, from the personal name Deorsiġe (“dear victory”) in the genitive case Deorsiġes + lēah (“wood, clearing”). The correct English form is Dursley, spelled D-U-R-S-L-E-Y.
Definition
- 1A market town and civil parish with a town council in Stroud district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref ST7598).
- 2A hamlet in Heywood parish, near Westbury, Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref ST8654).
Etymology
From Old English Deorsigeslēah, from the personal name Deorsiġe (“dear victory”) in the genitive case Deorsiġes + lēah (“wood, clearing”).
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).