CofE
/ˌsiːəvˈiː/
"cofe" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“CofE” is uncommon English (frequency #94,692 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,692
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abbreviation of Church of England; also C of E.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cofe · CofE · English
CofE · rank #94,692 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,692
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH cocooned
Nearest frequency peer: cocooned (-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 “CofE”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- cloke
cloke
5,314 corpus weight
- Coan
Coan
5,312 corpus weight
- coble
coble
5,311 corpus weight
- cocooned
cocooned
5,310 corpus weight
- CofE
CofE
5,309 corpus weight
- combiner
combiner
5,306 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “CofE” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | CofE |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˌsiːəvˈiː/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #94,692 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “CofE” in English
Rare enough to double-check
CofE is uncommon English at frequency #94,692 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˌsiːəvˈiː/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Abbreviation of Church of England; also C of E.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for CofE, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 CofE, spelled C-O-F-E.
Definition
- 1Abbreviation of Church of England; also C of E.
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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