Coverdale
"coverdale" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Coverdale” is uncommon English (frequency #77,565 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,565
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname.
Corpus desk
Index EN-coverdale · Coverdale · English
Coverdale · rank #77,565 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,565
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH covariant
Nearest frequency peer: covariant (-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 “Coverdale”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- cortege
cortege
22,441 corpus weight
- cosh
cosh
22,439 corpus weight
- covariant
covariant
22,437 corpus weight
- Coverdale
Coverdale
22,436 corpus weight
- crackled
crackled
22,435 corpus weight
- creo
creo
22,431 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Coverdale” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Coverdale |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #77,565 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Coverdale” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Coverdale is uncommon English at frequency #77,565 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Coverdale, 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: *The valley in North Yorkshire is named from the River Cover + dale. *The civil parish in New Brunswick is named after a former name of the Little River. The correct English form is Coverdale, spelled C-O-V-E-R-D-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1A surname.
- 2A valley (dale) in the Yorkshire Dales, Richmondshire district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE0683).
- 3A civil parish of Albert County, New Brunswick, Canada.
- 4An unincorporated community in Jefferson Davis Parish and Allen Parish, Louisiana, United States.
Etymology
*The valley in North Yorkshire is named from the River Cover + dale. *The civil parish in New Brunswick is named after a former name of the Little 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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