Chillicothe
/tʃɪlɪˈkɒθiː/
"chillicothe" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Chillicothe” is uncommon English (frequency #64,264 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,264
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A city in Peoria County, Illinois, United States.
Corpus desk
Index EN-chillicothe · Chillicothe · English
Chillicothe · rank #64,264 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,264
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH cheekbone
Nearest frequency peer: cheekbone (-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 “Chillicothe”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- cess
cess
35,742 corpus weight
- Champa
Champa
35,741 corpus weight
- cheekbone
cheekbone
35,738 corpus weight
- Chillicothe
Chillicothe
35,737 corpus weight
- chola
chola
35,736 corpus weight
- cissy
cissy
35,733 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Chillicothe” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “Chillicothe” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Chillicothe is uncommon English at frequency #64,264 among 5,599 “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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