Chatfield
"chatfield" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Chatfield” is uncommon English (frequency #61,361 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,361
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A habitational surname from Old English.
Corpus desk
Index EN-chatfield · Chatfield · English
Chatfield · rank #61,361 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,361
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH chauvinist
Nearest frequency peer: chauvinist (+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 “Chatfield”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- cep
cep
38,647 corpus weight
- Chabad
Chabad
38,644 corpus weight
- Chaffee
Chaffee
38,643 corpus weight
- Chatfield
Chatfield
38,640 corpus weight
- chauvinist
chauvinist
38,639 corpus weight
- Choudhury
Choudhury
38,636 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Chatfield” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Chatfield |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #61,361 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Chatfield” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Chatfield is uncommon English at frequency #61,361 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Chatfield, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: Habitational surname from a place in Sussex, from the Old English personal name Ceatta + feld (“field”). The correct English form is Chatfield, spelled C-H-A-T-F-I-E-L-D.
Definition
- 1A habitational surname from Old English.
- 2A city in Fillmore County, Minnesota, United States.
- 3A village in Crawford County, Ohio, United States.
- 4An unincorporated community in Navarro County, Texas, United States.
Etymology
Habitational surname from a place in Sussex, from the Old English personal name Ceatta + feld (“field”).
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).