Chillicothe
/tʃɪlɪˈkɒθiː/
"chillicothe" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Chillicothe” is uncommon English (frequency #64,264 among 43,570 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,264
- frequency rank, English
- 43,570
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A city in Peoria County, Illinois, United States.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Chillicothe |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /tʃɪlɪˈkɒθiː/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #64,264 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Chillicothe” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Chillicothe is uncommon English at frequency #64,264 among 43,570 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /tʃɪlɪˈkɒθiː/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Chillicothe, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From a Shawnee language word meaning "principal place" or "big town". The correct English form is Chillicothe, spelled C-H-I-L-L-I-C-O-T-H-E.
Definition
- 1A city in Peoria County, Illinois, United States.
- 2A small city in Wapello County, Iowa, United States.
- 3A city, the county seat of Livingston County, Missouri, United States.
- 4A city, the county seat of Ross County, Ohio, United States.
- 5A small city in Hardeman County, Texas, United States.
Etymology
From a Shawnee language word meaning "principal place" or "big town".
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 “Chillicothe”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is C-H-I-L-L-I-C-O-T-H-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.