Coquitlam
/koʊˈkwɪtləm/
"coquitlam" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Coquitlam” is uncommon English (frequency #59,982 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,982
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A city in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, Canada.
Corpus desk
Index EN-coquitlam · Coquitlam · English
Coquitlam · rank #59,982 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,982
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH convivial
Nearest frequency peer: convivial (-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 “Coquitlam”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- convenor
convenor
40,022 corpus weight
- conversant
conversant
40,021 corpus weight
- convivial
convivial
40,020 corpus weight
- Coquitlam
Coquitlam
40,019 corpus weight
- corse
corse
40,018 corpus weight
- coulomb
coulomb
40,017 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Coquitlam” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Coquitlam |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /koʊˈkwɪtləm/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #59,982 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Coquitlam” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Coquitlam is uncommon English at frequency #59,982 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /koʊˈkwɪtləm/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A city in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, Canada.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Coquitlam in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From a Coast Salish term meaning "red fish up the river". The correct English form is Coquitlam, spelled C-O-Q-U-I-T-L-A-M.
Definition
- 1A city in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, Canada.
Etymology
From a Coast Salish term meaning "red fish up the river".
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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