Bartlesville
"bartlesville" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Bartlesville” is uncommon English (frequency #74,753 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,753
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A city, the county seat of Washington County, Oklahoma, United States, named after Jacob Bartles.
Corpus desk
Index EN-bartlesville · Bartlesville · English
Bartlesville · rank #74,753 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,753
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH Bastrop
Nearest frequency peer: Bastrop (+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 “Bartlesville”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Bago
Bago
25,254 corpus weight
- bailie
bailie
25,253 corpus weight
- ballplayer
ballplayer
25,252 corpus weight
- Bartlesville
Bartlesville
25,248 corpus weight
- Bastrop
Bastrop
25,247 corpus weight
- Batra
Batra
25,246 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Bartlesville” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bartlesville |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #74,753 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Bartlesville” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Bartlesville is uncommon English at frequency #74,753 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A city, the county seat of Washington County, Oklahoma, United States, named after Jacob Bartles.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Bartlesville in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Bartles + -ville. The correct English form is Bartlesville, spelled B-A-R-T-L-E-S-V-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1A city, the county seat of Washington County, Oklahoma, United States, named after Jacob Bartles.
Etymology
From Bartles + -ville.
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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