Caterham
/keɪtəɹəm/
"caterham" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Caterham” is uncommon English (frequency #58,589 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,589
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A town in Caterham on the Hill parish and Caterham Valley parish, Tandridge district, Surrey, England (OS grid ref TQ3355).
Corpus desk
Index EN-caterham · Caterham · English
Caterham · rank #58,589 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,589
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH Catawba
Nearest frequency peer: Catawba (-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 “Caterham”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
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41,415 corpus weight
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41,414 corpus weight
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41,413 corpus weight
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41,412 corpus weight
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CD8
41,411 corpus weight
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Changsha
41,410 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Caterham” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Caterham |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /keɪtəɹəm/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #58,589 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Caterham” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Caterham is uncommon English at frequency #58,589 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /keɪtəɹəm/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A town in Caterham on the Hill parish and Caterham Valley parish, Tandridge district, Surrey, England (OS grid ref TQ3355).".
Caterham doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is Caterham, spelled C-A-T-E-R-H-A-M.
Definition
- 1A town in Caterham on the Hill parish and Caterham Valley parish, Tandridge district, Surrey, England (OS grid ref TQ3355).
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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