Abergavenny
"abergavenny" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Abergavenny” is uncommon English (frequency #67,990 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,990
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A market town and community with a town council in Monmouthshire, Wales (OS grid ref SO2914).
Corpus desk
Index EN-abergavenny · Abergavenny · English
Abergavenny · rank #67,990 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,990
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH Abbi
Nearest frequency peer: Abbi (-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 “Abergavenny”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Abaddon
Abaddon
32,014 corpus weight
- Abbasi
Abbasi
32,013 corpus weight
- Abbi
Abbi
32,012 corpus weight
- Abergavenny
Abergavenny
32,011 corpus weight
- abhors
abhors
32,010 corpus weight
- Adina
Adina
32,006 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Abergavenny” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Abergavenny |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #67,990 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Abergavenny” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Abergavenny is uncommon English at frequency #67,990 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A market town and community with a town council in Monmouthshire, Wales (OS grid ref SO2914).".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Abergavenny, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. 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 Welsh aber + Gavenny; the mouth of the River Gavenny, which here flows into the river Usk. The correct English form is Abergavenny, spelled A-B-E-R-G-A-V-E-N-N-Y.
Definition
- 1A market town and community with a town council in Monmouthshire, Wales (OS grid ref SO2914).
Etymology
From Welsh aber + Gavenny; the mouth of the River Gavenny, which here flows into the river Usk.
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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