Cirencester
/ˈsaɪ.ɹənˌsɛs.tə/
"cirencester" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Cirencester” is uncommon English (frequency #54,690 among 43,570 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,690
- 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 Cotswold district, Gloucestershire, England, the site of the ancient Corinium of the Dobunni (OS grid ref SP0202).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Cirencester |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈsaɪ.ɹənˌsɛs.tə/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #54,690 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Cirencester” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Cirencester is uncommon English at frequency #54,690 among 43,570 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈsaɪ.ɹənˌsɛs.tə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A market town and civil parish with a town council in Cotswold district, Gloucestershire, England, the site of the ancient Corinium of the Dobunni (OS grid ref SP0202).".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Cirencester, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Old English Ċirenċeaster. The correct English form is Cirencester, spelled C-I-R-E-N-C-E-S-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1A market town and civil parish with a town council in Cotswold district, Gloucestershire, England, the site of the ancient Corinium of the Dobunni (OS grid ref SP0202).
Etymology
From Old English Ċirenċeaster.
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 “Cirencester”
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- The one correct English spelling is C-I-R-E-N-C-E-S-T-E-R - 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.