dusts
/dʌsts/
"dusts" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“dusts” is uncommon English (frequency #68,171 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,171
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of dust
Corpus desk
Index EN-dusts · dusts · English
dusts · rank #68,171 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,171
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH Dushanbe
Nearest frequency peer: Dushanbe (-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 “dusts”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- duodenum
duodenum
31,833 corpus weight
- Dushanbe
Dushanbe
31,831 corpus weight
- dusts
dusts
31,830 corpus weight
- dwelled
dwelled
31,829 corpus weight
- Eagan
Eagan
31,826 corpus weight
- EBC
EBC
31,825 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “dusts” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dusts |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /dʌsts/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #68,171 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “dusts” in English
Rare enough to double-check
dusts is uncommon English at frequency #68,171 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /dʌsts/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of dust".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for dusts, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is dusts, spelled D-U-S-T-S.
Definition
- 1plural of dust
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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