Connemara
/ˌkɑnəˈmɑɹə/
"connemara" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Connemara” is uncommon English (frequency #67,325 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,325
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A mountainous district of western County Galway, Ireland.
Corpus desk
Index EN-connemara · Connemara · English
Connemara · rank #67,325 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,325
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH Conakry
Nearest frequency peer: Conakry (-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 “Connemara”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- complementa…
complementarity
32,679 corpus weight
- compositing
compositing
32,678 corpus weight
- Conakry
Conakry
32,677 corpus weight
- Connemara
Connemara
32,676 corpus weight
- coord
coord
32,673 corpus weight
- Corea
Corea
32,671 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Connemara” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Connemara |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˌkɑnəˈmɑɹə/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #67,325 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Connemara” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Connemara is uncommon English at frequency #67,325 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˌkɑnəˈmɑɹə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A mountainous district of western County Galway, Ireland.".
Connemara has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Irish Conamara, from Conmhaícne Mara (literally “the Conmhaícne of the sea”), a branch of an ancient native tribe named Conmhaícne (literally “descendants of Con Mhac”). The correct English form is Connemara, spelled C-O-N-N-E-M-A-R-A.
Definition
- 1A mountainous district of western County Galway, Ireland.
Etymology
Borrowed from Irish Conamara, from Conmhaícne Mara (literally “the Conmhaícne of the sea”), a branch of an ancient native tribe named Conmhaícne (literally “descendants of Con Mhac”).
This word in other languages
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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