coalfield
"coalfield" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“coalfield” is uncommon English (frequency #63,512 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,512
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Any region containing deposits of coal that may be mined.
Corpus desk
Index EN-coalfield · coalfield · English
coalfield · rank #63,512 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,512
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH clumping
Nearest frequency peer: clumping (-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 “coalfield”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- clandestine…
clandestinely
36,492 corpus weight
- clumping
clumping
36,490 corpus weight
- coalfield
coalfield
36,489 corpus weight
- cockle
cockle
36,487 corpus weight
- codebase
codebase
36,486 corpus weight
- cohesiveness
cohesiveness
36,485 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “coalfield” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coalfield |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #63,512 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “coalfield” in English
Rare enough to double-check
coalfield is uncommon English at frequency #63,512 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Any region containing deposits of coal that may be mined.".
coalfield has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From coal + field. The correct English form is coalfield, spelled C-O-A-L-F-I-E-L-D.
Definition
- 1Any region containing deposits of coal that may be mined.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how coalfield appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The east-west flow consists in the westerly direction of the agricultural and industrial products of East Anglia; imports through London and Parkeston (Harwich); special traffic in coke to the Northamptonshire ironfield; and mineral empties returning to the Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, and South Yorkshire coalfields.
The amount of coal despatched in the Western Region is about 24,000,000 tons a year, nearly all from South Wales, though the Region includes the Forest of Dean, N. Somerset, and part of the N. Wales coalfields.
Etymology
From coal + field.
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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