causeway
/ˈkɔːz.weɪ/
"causeway" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“causeway” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #27,398. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,398
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A road that is raised so as to be above water, marshland, and similar low-lying obstacles, which in some cases may flood periodically (e.g. due to tides). Originally causeways were much like dykes,...
Corpus desk
Index EN-causeway · causeway · English
causeway · rank #27,398 · 11 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,398
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH childrens
Nearest frequency peer: childrens (+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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “causeway”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
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72,606 corpus weight
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72,605 corpus weight
- causeway
causeway
72,603 corpus weight
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72,602 corpus weight
- clamps
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72,601 corpus weight
- clearest
clearest
72,600 corpus weight
What this shows “causeway” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | causeway |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkɔːz.weɪ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #27,398 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “causeway”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around causeway (IPA /ˈkɔːz.weɪ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,398 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A road that is raised so as to be above water, marshland, and similar low-lying obstacles, which in some cases may flood periodically (e.g. due to tides). Originally causeways were much like dykes,...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for causeway, with forms such as "acuseway", "casueway", and "cauesway". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English cawcewey, with the first element from Middle English cauce, from Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French caucee or Old French caucie, cauchie (“route, highway”), from Vulgar Latin *calciāta (compare modern French chaussée from Old French chauc… The correct English form is causeway, spelled C-A-U-S-E-W-A-Y.
Definition
- 1A road that is raised so as to be above water, marshland, and similar low-lying obstacles, which in some cases may flood periodically (e.g. due to tides). Originally causeways were much like dykes, generally pierced to let water through, whereas many modern causeways are more like bridges or viaducts.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how causeway appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
1836, Account of the Old Bridge at Stratford-le-Bow in Essex from Alfred Burges, Esq. addressed to Sir Henry Ellis https://archive.org/details/archaeologiaorm01londgoog . . .the passage over the water of the Luye at Stratford atte Bowe, anciently used to be in a certain place which is called the Old Forde, which is distant from the place where the bridges…
Throughout the parish are ancient causeways paved with irregular slabs of local marble, and in some places the outline of the fossils of small snails can be seen in the stone. The causeways were laid as hard paths for heavily laden pack-animals bringing in wool from outlying hamlets and farms.
Etymology
From Middle English cawcewey, with the first element from Middle English cauce, from Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French caucee or Old French caucie, cauchie (“route, highway”), from Vulgar Latin *calciāta (compare modern French chaussée from Old French chaucie, itself from the same source), either from Latin calx, calcis (“limestone”), or alternatively from Latin calciō (“to stamp with the heels, tread”), from calx (“heel”). The second element corresponds to English way.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acuseway
- casueway
- cauesway
- causeawy
- causewayy
- causewway
- causewya
- causseway
- causweay
- ccauseway
- cuaseway
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of causeway - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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