Catawba
/kəˈtɔː.bə/
"catawba" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Catawba” is uncommon English (frequency #58,588 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,588
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A member of a Native American people who inhabit the Carolinas: the Iswa.
Corpus desk
Index EN-catawba · Catawba · English
Catawba · rank #58,588 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,588
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH Casimir
Nearest frequency peer: Casimir (-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 “Catawba”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Carstairs
Carstairs
41,415 corpus weight
- Casimir
Casimir
41,414 corpus weight
- Catawba
Catawba
41,413 corpus weight
- Caterham
Caterham
41,412 corpus weight
- CD8
CD8
41,411 corpus weight
- Changsha
Changsha
41,410 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Catawba” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Catawba |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kəˈtɔː.bə/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #58,588 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Catawba” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Catawba is uncommon English at frequency #58,588 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /kəˈtɔː.bə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Catawba, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. 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: From the noun catawba, as the tree was the people's totem. The correct English form is Catawba, spelled C-A-T-A-W-B-A.
Definition
- 1A member of a Native American people who inhabit the Carolinas: the Iswa.
- 2A red American dessert grape variety.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Catawba appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
There was a Catawba brave who took some pottery [to another tribe] to trade for bows and arrows. This chief [of the other tribe] had a beautiful daughter, and the Catawba brave fell in love with her, and she likewise fell in love with him. When the Catawba brave left, she asked her father for a bow and arrow. She shot it in the air in the direction the br…
The basic material for sherry is a mixture or a blend of dry wines from Niagaras, Delawares, and Catawbas or other white juices, which are sweetened and fortified and then blended with California sherry.
Etymology
From the noun catawba, as the tree was the people's totem.
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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