Avebury
"avebury" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Avebury” is uncommon English (frequency #78,381 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,381
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A village and civil parish west of Marlborough, Wiltshire, England, location of a prehistoric stone circle (OS grid ref SU1069).
Corpus desk
Index EN-avebury · Avebury · English
Avebury · rank #78,381 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,381
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH autocar
Nearest frequency peer: autocar (-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 “Avebury”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- authenticat…
authenticator
21,623 corpus weight
- autocar
autocar
21,621 corpus weight
- Avebury
Avebury
21,620 corpus weight
- AZT
AZT
21,619 corpus weight
- baas
baas
21,618 corpus weight
- babby
babby
21,617 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Avebury” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Avebury |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #78,381 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Avebury” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Avebury is uncommon English at frequency #78,381 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A village and civil parish west of Marlborough, Wiltshire, England, location of a prehistoric stone circle (OS grid ref SU1069).".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Avebury, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is Avebury, spelled A-V-E-B-U-R-Y.
Definition
- 1A village and civil parish west of Marlborough, Wiltshire, England, location of a prehistoric stone circle (OS grid ref SU1069).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Avebury appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Entering Avebury from any direction is like stepping back into the past. Before the centre of the village is reached, the road passes through an immense circle of brooding stones which stand like petrified ghosts of an age about which little is known.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).