Chittenden
/ˈt͡ʃɪtəndən/
"chittenden" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Chittenden” is uncommon English (frequency #67,308 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,308
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname.
Corpus desk
Index EN-chittenden · Chittenden · English
Chittenden · rank #67,308 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,308
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH chitchat
Nearest frequency peer: chitchat (-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 “Chittenden”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- chanson
chanson
32,698 corpus weight
- Chea
Chea
32,696 corpus weight
- cherubs
cherubs
32,695 corpus weight
- chitchat
chitchat
32,694 corpus weight
- Chittenden
Chittenden
32,693 corpus weight
- chokehold
chokehold
32,692 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Chittenden” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Chittenden |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈt͡ʃɪtəndən/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #67,308 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Chittenden” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Chittenden is uncommon English at frequency #67,308 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈt͡ʃɪtəndən/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for Chittenden in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is Chittenden, spelled C-H-I-T-T-E-N-D-E-N.
Definition
- 1A surname.
- 2An unincorporated community in Santa Cruz County, California, United States.
- 3A town in Rutland County, Vermont, United States.
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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