Caledon
/ˈkæ.lə.dən/
"caledon" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Caledon” is uncommon English (frequency #85,076 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,076
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A town in Ontario, Canada.
Corpus desk
Index EN-caledon · Caledon · English
Caledon · rank #85,076 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,076
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH caging
Nearest frequency peer: caging (-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 “Caledon”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Buckminster
Buckminster
14,930 corpus weight
- bungo
bungo
14,928 corpus weight
- caging
caging
14,926 corpus weight
- Caledon
Caledon
14,925 corpus weight
- calligraphic
calligraphic
14,922 corpus weight
- campanile
campanile
14,921 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Caledon” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Caledon |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈkæ.lə.dən/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #85,076 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Caledon” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Caledon is uncommon English at frequency #85,076 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈkæ.lə.dən/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Caledon, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is Caledon, spelled C-A-L-E-D-O-N.
Definition
- 1A town in Ontario, Canada.
- 2A village in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.
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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