dut
"dut" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“dut” is uncommon English (frequency #76,739 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,739
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A snug woolly hat.
Corpus desk
Index EN-dut · dut · English
dut · rank #76,739 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,739
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH Dupre
Nearest frequency peer: Dupre (-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 “dut”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- dumbstruck
dumbstruck
23,265 corpus weight
- dumper
dumper
23,264 corpus weight
- Dupre
Dupre
23,263 corpus weight
- dut
dut
23,262 corpus weight
- earwax
earwax
23,261 corpus weight
- Eastham
Eastham
23,260 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “dut” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dut |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #76,739 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “dut” in English
Rare enough to double-check
dut is uncommon English at frequency #76,739 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A snug woolly hat.".
No misspelling variants are generated for dut in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is dut, spelled D-U-T.
Definition
- 1A snug woolly hat.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dut appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
There was a kid at our school called Dean Smith who used to wear a 'Benny Dut' to demonstrate how unfathomably stupid he is.
The result is that I’m entering Ward Jackson Park, near Hartlepool Cricket Club, dressed in people shorts, comfy top – and traditional blue-and-white Pooly dut (for culture starved southerners, a woolly cap).
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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