countywide
"countywide" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“countywide” is uncommon English (frequency #74,853 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,853
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Occurring or extending throughout a county
Corpus desk
Index EN-countywide · countywide · English
countywide · rank #74,853 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,853
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH countervailing
Nearest frequency peer: countervailing (-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 “countywide”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- coronel
coronel
25,152 corpus weight
- countervail…
countervailing
25,149 corpus weight
- countywide
countywide
25,148 corpus weight
- coveting
coveting
25,147 corpus weight
- cravens
cravens
25,145 corpus weight
- CRES
CRES
25,144 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “countywide” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | countywide |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #74,853 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “countywide” in English
Rare enough to double-check
countywide is uncommon English at frequency #74,853 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Occurring or extending throughout a county".
No misspelling variants are generated for countywide in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From county + -wide. The correct English form is countywide, spelled C-O-U-N-T-Y-W-I-D-E.
Definition
- 1Occurring or extending throughout a county
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how countywide appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
To win a spot on the board, you have to run a countywide campaign--no small trick.
Even with only 14.1 percent of the votes countywide counted as of 11 p.m. Tuesday, 92.16 percent of the 1,160 votes cast in the community northwest of Tracy near the Alameda County line favored incorporation.
Etymology
From county + -wide.
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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