Audley
"audley" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Audley” is uncommon English (frequency #55,929 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,929
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A village in Audley Rural parish, Newcastle-under-Lyme borough, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SJ7950).
Corpus desk
Index EN-audley · Audley · English
Audley · rank #55,929 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,929
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH audiophile
Nearest frequency peer: audiophile (-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 “Audley”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Asis
Asis
44,076 corpus weight
- Asterix
Asterix
44,075 corpus weight
- astigmatism
astigmatism
44,074 corpus weight
- audiophile
audiophile
44,073 corpus weight
- Audley
Audley
44,072 corpus weight
- avast
avast
44,071 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Audley” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Audley |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #55,929 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Audley” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Audley is uncommon English at frequency #55,929 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Audley has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From the Old English personal name Ealdgȳþ + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”). The correct English form is Audley, spelled A-U-D-L-E-Y.
Definition
- 1A village in Audley Rural parish, Newcastle-under-Lyme borough, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SJ7950).
- 2A locality in Sutherland Shire, New South Wales, Australia.
- 3A habitational surname from Old English.
Etymology
From the Old English personal name Ealdgȳþ + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”).
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).