Chalcedon
/ˈkælsɪˌdɒn/
"chalcedon" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Chalcedon” is uncommon English (frequency #86,126 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,126
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An ancient maritime town of Bithynia, in Asia Minor in modern Turkey, almost directly opposite Byzantium.
Corpus desk
Index EN-chalcedon · Chalcedon · English
Chalcedon · rank #86,126 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,126
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH Chahal
Nearest frequency peer: Chahal (-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 “Chalcedon”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- cephalopod
cephalopod
13,878 corpus weight
- cerise
cerise
13,877 corpus weight
- Chahal
Chahal
13,876 corpus weight
- Chalcedon
Chalcedon
13,875 corpus weight
- chalcedony
chalcedony
13,874 corpus weight
- Chancellors…
Chancellorsville
13,873 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Chalcedon” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Chalcedon |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈkælsɪˌdɒn/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #86,126 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Chalcedon” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Chalcedon is uncommon English at frequency #86,126 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈkælsɪˌdɒn/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An ancient maritime town of Bithynia, in Asia Minor in modern Turkey, almost directly opposite Byzantium.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Chalcedon, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Latin Chalcēdōn, from Ancient Greek Χαλκηδών (Khalkēdṓn). See Kadıköy. The correct English form is Chalcedon, spelled C-H-A-L-C-E-D-O-N.
Definition
- 1An ancient maritime town of Bithynia, in Asia Minor in modern Turkey, almost directly opposite Byzantium.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin Chalcēdōn, from Ancient Greek Χαλκηδών (Khalkēdṓn). See Kadıköy.
This word in other languages
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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