Clydebank
"clydebank" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Clydebank” is uncommon English (frequency #61,379 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,379
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A town on the north side of the River Clyde in West Dunbartonshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS4970).
Corpus desk
Index EN-clydebank · Clydebank · English
Clydebank · rank #61,379 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,379
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH clumsiness
Nearest frequency peer: clumsiness (-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 “Clydebank”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- classier
classier
38,627 corpus weight
- cleat
cleat
38,625 corpus weight
- clumsiness
clumsiness
38,623 corpus weight
- Clydebank
Clydebank
38,622 corpus weight
- colander
colander
38,620 corpus weight
- Colston
Colston
38,619 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Clydebank” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Clydebank |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #61,379 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Clydebank” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Clydebank is uncommon English at frequency #61,379 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for Clydebank in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Clyde + bank. The correct English form is Clydebank, spelled C-L-Y-D-E-B-A-N-K.
Definition
- 1A town on the north side of the River Clyde in West Dunbartonshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS4970).
- 2A locality in the Shire of Wellington, south eastern Victoria, Australia.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Clydebank appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A Covidiot party attended by a large number of people was shut down by police in Clydebank. […] A total of 37 Fixed Penalty Notices were issued for 'breaching Covid regulations'.
Etymology
From Clyde + bank.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).