Chippenham
"chippenham" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Chippenham” is uncommon English (frequency #71,398 among 43,570 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,398
- frequency rank, English
- 43,570
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A market town and civil parish with a town council in north Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref ST9173).
Corpus desk
Index EN-chippenham · Chippenham · English
Chippenham · rank #71,398 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,398
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 43,570
- PHOTO-FINISH Chinas
Nearest frequency peer: Chinas (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Chippenham”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Chev
Chev
28,606 corpus weight
- chicanery
chicanery
28,605 corpus weight
- Chinas
Chinas
28,604 corpus weight
- Chippenham
Chippenham
28,603 corpus weight
- chitin
chitin
28,602 corpus weight
- Chuy
Chuy
28,601 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Chippenham” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Chippenham |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #71,398 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Chippenham” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Chippenham is uncommon English at frequency #71,398 among 43,570 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Chippenham has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Old English Ċippanham, from the personal name *Cippa, genitive singular *Cippan + hamm (“promontory”). The correct English form is Chippenham, spelled C-H-I-P-P-E-N-H-A-M.
Definition
- 1A market town and civil parish with a town council in north Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref ST9173).
- 2A village and civil parish in East Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL6669).
- 3A suburb of Monmouth, Monmouthshire, Wales (OS grid ref SO5012).
Etymology
From Old English Ċippanham, from the personal name *Cippa, genitive singular *Cippan + hamm (“promontory”).
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.