Annandale
"annandale" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Annandale” is an uncommon English word, ranked #54,007 in English word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #54,007
- frequency rank, English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A valley or strath in Dumfriesshire, Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Annandale |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #54,007 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Annandale” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for Annandale is 9 letters long, classified as a proper noun. Corpus data places it at rank #54,007 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Annandale, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From the River Annan + dale. The correct English form is Annandale, spelled A-N-N-A-N-D-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1A valley or strath in Dumfriesshire, Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland.
- 2A suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
- 3A suburb of Townsville, Queensland, Australia.
- 4A community in Demerara-Mahaica region, Guyana.
- 5A town in Pomeroon-Supenaam region, Guyana.
- 6A neighborhood of Pasadena and Los Angeles, California, United States.
- 7A city in Wright County, Minnesota, United States.
- 8A census-designated place and unincorporated community in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, United States.
- 9A census-designated place in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States.
Etymology
From the River Annan + dale.
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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Using “Annandale”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is A-N-N-A-N-D-A-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.