cheviot
/ˈʃɛviət/
"cheviot" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cheviot” is uncommon English (frequency #80,311 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,311
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A coarse woolen fabric made from the wool of Cheviot sheep.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cheviot · cheviot · English
cheviot · rank #80,311 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,311
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH Chios
Nearest frequency peer: Chios (+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 “cheviot”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- cGMP
cGMP
19,694 corpus weight
- chandu
chandu
19,692 corpus weight
- cheviot
cheviot
19,690 corpus weight
- Chios
Chios
19,689 corpus weight
- chocolatier
chocolatier
19,686 corpus weight
- choicest
choicest
19,685 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “cheviot” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cheviot |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈʃɛviət/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #80,311 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “cheviot” in English
Rare enough to double-check
cheviot is uncommon English at frequency #80,311 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈʃɛviət/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A coarse woolen fabric made from the wool of Cheviot sheep.".
No misspelling variants are generated for cheviot in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is cheviot, spelled C-H-E-V-I-O-T.
Definition
- 1A coarse woolen fabric made from the wool of Cheviot sheep.
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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