Clevedon
/ˈkliːvdən/
"clevedon" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Clevedon” is uncommon English (frequency #91,361 among 43,570 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,361
- frequency rank, English
- 43,570
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A coastal town and civil parish with a town council in North Somerset, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST4071).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Clevedon |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈkliːvdən/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #91,361 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Clevedon” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Clevedon is uncommon English at frequency #91,361 among 43,570 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈkliːvdən/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Clevedon, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is Clevedon, spelled C-L-E-V-E-D-O-N.
Definition
- 1A coastal town and civil parish with a town council in North Somerset, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST4071).
- 2A small rural town south of Auckland, New Zealand.
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 “Clevedon”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is C-L-E-V-E-D-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈkliːvdən/ (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.