Caddo
/ˈkædəʊ/
"caddo" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Caddo” is uncommon English (frequency #66,537 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,537
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A member of a confederacy of several southeastern Native American tribes, who inhabited much of what is now East Texas, western Louisiana and portions of southern Arkansas and Oklahoma in the 16th ...
Corpus desk
Index EN-caddo · Caddo · English
Caddo · rank #66,537 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,537
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH cablevision
Nearest frequency peer: cablevision (-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 “Caddo”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- buttressed
buttressed
33,467 corpus weight
- cablevision
cablevision
33,465 corpus weight
- Caddo
Caddo
33,464 corpus weight
- Californica…
Californication
33,463 corpus weight
- Carcassonne
Carcassonne
33,461 corpus weight
- Carnahan
Carnahan
33,460 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Caddo” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Caddo |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkædəʊ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #66,537 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Caddo” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Caddo is uncommon English at frequency #66,537 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈkædəʊ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A member of a confederacy of several southeastern Native American tribes, who inhabited much of what is now East Texas, western Louisiana and portions of southern Arkansas and Oklahoma in the 16th ...".
Zero misspellings are on record for Caddo in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: Clipping of French Kadohadacho, from Caddo kadawdáachuh. The correct English form is Caddo, spelled C-A-D-D-O.
Definition
- 1A member of a confederacy of several southeastern Native American tribes, who inhabited much of what is now East Texas, western Louisiana and portions of southern Arkansas and Oklahoma in the 16th century.
Etymology
Clipping of French Kadohadacho, from Caddo kadawdáachuh.
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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