churchyard
/ˈt͡ʃɝt͡ʃ.jɑɹd/
"churchyard" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“churchyard” has 17 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #31,916. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,916
- frequency rank, English
- 43,570
- “C” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A patch of land adjoining a church, often used as a graveyard.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | churchyard |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈt͡ʃɝt͡ʃ.jɑɹd/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #31,916 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “churchyard” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around churchyard (IPA /ˈt͡ʃɝt͡ʃ.jɑɹd/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #31,916 among 43,570 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A patch of land adjoining a church, often used as a graveyard.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for churchyard, with forms such as "cchurchyard", "chhurchyard", and "chruchyard". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English churchyard, chirch-ȝerd, chircheȝerd (also kirk-ȝerd, kirkeyard > English kirkyard), equivalent to church + yard. Compare also Middle English kurk-garth, kyrkgarth, kirrkegærd, from Old Norse kirkjugarðr (“churchyard; graveyard”). Replac… The correct English form is churchyard, spelled C-H-U-R-C-H-Y-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1A patch of land adjoining a church, often used as a graveyard.
Etymology
From Middle English churchyard, chirch-ȝerd, chircheȝerd (also kirk-ȝerd, kirkeyard > English kirkyard), equivalent to church + yard. Compare also Middle English kurk-garth, kyrkgarth, kirrkegærd, from Old Norse kirkjugarðr (“churchyard; graveyard”). Replaced Middle English chirchetoun from Old English ċirictūn (churchtown).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cchurchyard,chhurchyard,chruchyard,chucrhyard,churcchyard,churchayrd,churchhyard,churchyadr,churchyardd,churchyarrd,churchyrad,churchyyard,churcyhard,churhcyard,churrchyard,cuhrchyard,hcurchyard
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of churchyard - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 “churchyard”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is C-H-U-R-C-H-Y-A-R-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈt͡ʃɝt͡ʃ.jɑɹd/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.