Cappadocia
/kæpəˈdoʊʃə/
"cappadocia" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Cappadocia” is uncommon English (frequency #65,761 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,761
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A historical region and ancient kingdom in central Asia Minor, in present-day Turkey.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cappadocia · Cappadocia · English
Cappadocia · rank #65,761 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,761
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH candidature
Nearest frequency peer: candidature (-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 “Cappadocia”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- bungling
bungling
34,244 corpus weight
- buzzkill
buzzkill
34,243 corpus weight
- Callisto
Callisto
34,242 corpus weight
- candidature
candidature
34,241 corpus weight
- Cappadocia
Cappadocia
34,240 corpus weight
- cardinality
cardinality
34,238 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Cappadocia” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Cappadocia |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /kæpəˈdoʊʃə/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #65,761 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Cappadocia” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Cappadocia is uncommon English at frequency #65,761 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /kæpəˈdoʊʃə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for Cappadocia in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin Cappadocia, from Ancient Greek Καππαδοκία (Kappadokía), from Old Persian 𐎣𐎫𐎱𐎬𐎢𐎣 (k-t-p-tu-u-k /katpatuka/). The correct English form is Cappadocia, spelled C-A-P-P-A-D-O-C-I-A.
Definition
- 1A historical region and ancient kingdom in central Asia Minor, in present-day Turkey.
- 2A former province of the Roman Empire, existing from 18 AD until the 7th century.
Etymology
From Latin Cappadocia, from Ancient Greek Καππαδοκία (Kappadokía), from Old Persian 𐎣𐎫𐎱𐎬𐎢𐎣 (k-t-p-tu-u-k /katpatuka/).
This word in other languages
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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