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
- 43,570
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 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,...
| 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) |
Where “causeway” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around causeway (IPA /ˈkɔːz.weɪ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,398 among 43,570 “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.
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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Using “causeway”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is C-A-U-S-E-W-A-Y - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈkɔːz.weɪ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.