Ceredigion
/kɛɹəˈdɪɡiən/
"ceredigion" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Ceredigion” is uncommon English (frequency #51,605 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,605
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A county of Wales, formerly known as Cardiganshire; the county town is Aberaeron.
Corpus desk
Index EN-ceredigion · Ceredigion · English
Ceredigion · rank #51,605 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,605
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH cerebrospinal
Nearest frequency peer: cerebrospinal (-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 “Ceredigion”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
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catalyze
48,399 corpus weight
- cavalcade
cavalcade
48,398 corpus weight
- cerebrospin…
cerebrospinal
48,397 corpus weight
- Ceredigion
Ceredigion
48,396 corpus weight
- chequered
chequered
48,393 corpus weight
- chine
chine
48,392 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Ceredigion” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ceredigion |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /kɛɹəˈdɪɡiən/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #51,605 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Ceredigion” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Ceredigion is uncommon English at frequency #51,605 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /kɛɹəˈdɪɡiən/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A county of Wales, formerly known as Cardiganshire; the county town is Aberaeron.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Ceredigion, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is Ceredigion, spelled C-E-R-E-D-I-G-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1A county of Wales, formerly known as Cardiganshire; the county town is Aberaeron.
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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