caerphilly
/kɛːˈfɪli/
"caerphilly" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“caerphilly” is uncommon English (frequency #54,666 among 43,570 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,666
- frequency rank, English
- 43,570
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A light-colored, crumbly cheese made from cow's milk.
Corpus desk
Index EN-caerphilly · caerphilly · English
caerphilly · rank #54,666 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,666
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 43,570
- PHOTO-FINISH cakewalk
Nearest frequency peer: cakewalk (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “caerphilly”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- buffing
buffing
45,339 corpus weight
- busking
busking
45,338 corpus weight
- caerphilly
caerphilly
45,335 corpus weight
- cakewalk
cakewalk
45,334 corpus weight
- Caliente
Caliente
45,333 corpus weight
- Camberwell
Camberwell
45,332 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “caerphilly” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caerphilly |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kɛːˈfɪli/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #54,666 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “caerphilly” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
caerphilly is uncommon English at frequency #54,666 among 43,570 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /kɛːˈfɪli/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A light-colored, crumbly cheese made from cow's milk.".
caerphilly has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Named after the town of Caerphilly, Wales. The correct English form is caerphilly, spelled C-A-E-R-P-H-I-L-L-Y.
Definition
- 1A light-colored, crumbly cheese made from cow's milk.
Etymology
Named after the town of Caerphilly, Wales.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.