Clovelly
/kləˈvɛli/
"clovelly" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Clovelly” is uncommon English (frequency #92,469 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,469
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A small harbour village and civil parish in Torridge district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SS3124).
Corpus desk
Index EN-clovelly · Clovelly · English
Clovelly · rank #92,469 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,469
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH cloverleaf
Nearest frequency peer: cloverleaf (+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 “Clovelly”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- circuiting
circuiting
7,540 corpus weight
- clarinetist
clarinetist
7,536 corpus weight
- Clovelly
Clovelly
7,532 corpus weight
- cloverleaf
cloverleaf
7,531 corpus weight
- codependency
codependency
7,526 corpus weight
- cohost
cohost
7,524 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Clovelly” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Clovelly |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /kləˈvɛli/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #92,469 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Clovelly” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Clovelly is uncommon English at frequency #92,469 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /kləˈvɛli/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Clovelly doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is Clovelly, spelled C-L-O-V-E-L-L-Y.
Definition
- 1A small harbour village and civil parish in Torridge district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SS3124).
- 2A suburb in the Cape Peninsula area of Cape Town, South Africa.
- 3An eastern suburb of Sydney in the City of Randwick, New South Wales, Australia.
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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