corduroy road
"corduroy-road" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“corduroy road” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A road paved with split or round logs laid crosswise side by side, used e.g. to cross swampy areas.
Corpus desk
Index EN-corduroy-road · corduroy road · English
corduroy road · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | corduroy road |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “corduroy road” in English
Rare enough to double-check
corduroy road is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A road paved with split or round logs laid crosswise side by side, used e.g. to cross swampy areas.".
Zero misspellings are on record for corduroy road in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is corduroy road, spelled C-O-R-D-U-R-O-Y- -R-O-A-D.
Definition
- 1A road paved with split or round logs laid crosswise side by side, used e.g. to cross swampy areas.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how corduroy road appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The army moved from Savannah on the 28th of January, 1865, on its march through South Carolina […] During this march, Sherman’s army had built thirty-nine miles of corduroy road through the otherwise impassable swamps.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.