Addington
/ˈædɪŋtən/
"addington" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Addington” is uncommon English (frequency #57,841 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,841
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A place in England:
Corpus desk
Index EN-addington · Addington · English
Addington · rank #57,841 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,841
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH Adolphe
Nearest frequency peer: Adolphe (+3 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 “Addington”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Abington
Abington
42,165 corpus weight
- Addington
Addington
42,160 corpus weight
- Adolphe
Adolphe
42,157 corpus weight
- afore
afore
42,156 corpus weight
- Ainsley
Ainsley
42,153 corpus weight
- Aliyev
Aliyev
42,151 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Addington” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Addington |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈædɪŋtən/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #57,841 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Addington” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Addington is uncommon English at frequency #57,841 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈædɪŋtən/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 9 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for Addington 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, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: Probably from the Old English personal names *Eadda or *Æddi + -ing (“belonging to”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”). The correct English form is Addington, spelled A-D-D-I-N-G-T-O-N.
Definition
- 1A place in England:
- 2A place in England:
- 3A place in England:
- 4A place in England:
- 5A place in England:
- 6A town near the city of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia.
- 7A suburb of Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand.
- 8A town in Jefferson County, Oklahoma, United States.
- 9A habitational surname from Old English.
Etymology
Probably from the Old English personal names *Eadda or *Æddi + -ing (“belonging to”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
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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