Catesby
/ˈkeɪts.bi/
"catesby" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Catesby” is uncommon English (frequency #89,208 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,208
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A civil parish in West Northamptonshire, Northamptonshire, England, previously in Daventry district.
Corpus desk
Index EN-catesby · Catesby · English
Catesby · rank #89,208 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,208
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH catabolism
Nearest frequency peer: catabolism (-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 “Catesby”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- carrel
carrel
10,797 corpus weight
- Cartersville
Cartersville
10,796 corpus weight
- Cassano
Cassano
10,795 corpus weight
- catabolism
catabolism
10,794 corpus weight
- Catesby
Catesby
10,793 corpus weight
- celeriac
celeriac
10,789 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Catesby” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Catesby |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈkeɪts.bi/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #89,208 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Catesby” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Catesby is uncommon English at frequency #89,208 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈkeɪts.bi/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Catesby, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is Catesby, spelled C-A-T-E-S-B-Y.
Definition
- 1A civil parish in West Northamptonshire, Northamptonshire, England, previously in Daventry district.
- 2An unincorporated community in Ellis County, Oklahoma, United States.
- 3A surname.
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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