Athlone
"athlone" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Athlone” is uncommon English (frequency #66,475 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,475
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A town in County Westmeath and County Roscommon, Ireland (Irish grid ref N 0441).
Corpus desk
Index EN-athlone · Athlone · English
Athlone · rank #66,475 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,475
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH Atal
Nearest frequency peer: Atal (-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 “Athlone”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- ARPA
ARPA
33,530 corpus weight
- Atal
Atal
33,527 corpus weight
- Athlone
Athlone
33,526 corpus weight
- attentivene…
attentiveness
33,525 corpus weight
- Aurobindo
Aurobindo
33,523 corpus weight
- authorial
authorial
33,522 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Athlone” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Athlone |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #66,475 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Athlone” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Athlone is uncommon English at frequency #66,475 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
Athlone doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Irish Áth Luain (literally “Luan’s ford”). The correct English form is Athlone, spelled A-T-H-L-O-N-E.
Definition
- 1A town in County Westmeath and County Roscommon, Ireland (Irish grid ref N 0441).
- 2A small town in the Shire of Baw Baw, Victoria, Australia.
- 3A neighbourhood of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
- 4A suburb of Cape Town, South Africa.
- 5An unincorporated community in Merced County, California, United States.
Etymology
From Irish Áth Luain (literally “Luan’s ford”).
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).