Covington

name

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"covington" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“Covington” has 14 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #27,417. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#27,417
frequency rank, English
5,599
“C” headwords
14
tracked misspellings

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A village and civil parish in Huntingdonshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL0570).

Corpus desk

Index EN-covington · Covington · English

Covington · rank #27,417 · 14 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #27,417
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 14 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,599
  • PHOTO-FINISH covent

Nearest frequency peer: covent (-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.

Rank peers near misspelling magnet “Covington”

Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword

corpus weight

What this shows “Covington” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Covington
PropertyValue
HeadwordCovington
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechProper noun
Letters9
Frequency rank#27,417
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Covington”

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right).Covingtonlands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Ticks step logarithmically, so each one marks a roughly tenfold drop in how often the word turns up. Same rarity band neighbours include “covent” (#27,416), “cramp” (#27,418), “Curran” (#27,420). Among 5,599 “C” headwords, “Covington” is #27,417. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 14 spelling variants around Covington, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #27,417 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 24 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for Covington, with forms such as "ccovington", "coivngton", and "covignton". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Old English Cofingtun, from Cofa (a masculine given name) + -ing (“belonging to”) + -tun (“settlement”, literally “Cofa's town”). The correct English form is Covington, spelled C-O-V-I-N-G-T-O-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    A village and civil parish in Huntingdonshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL0570).
  2. 2
    A hamlet in South Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS9739).
  3. 3
    An English habitational surname from the village in England.
  4. 4
    A locale in the United States.
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    A locale in the United States.
  24. 24
    Ellipsis of Covington County.

Etymology

From Old English Cofingtun, from Cofa (a masculine given name) + -ing (“belonging to”) + -tun (“settlement”, literally “Cofa's town”).

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ccovington
  • coivngton
  • covignton
  • covinggton
  • covingotn
  • covingtno
  • covingtonn
  • covingtton
  • covinngton
  • covintgon
  • covnigton
  • covvington
  • cvoington
  • ocvington

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Covington - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

ccovington1coivngton2covignton2covinggton1covingotn2covingtno2covingtonn1covingtton1
Edit distance from "Covington"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Covington"?
"Covington" is spelled C-O-V-I-N-G-T-O-N.
What does "Covington" mean?
As a proper noun, "Covington" means: A village and civil parish in Huntingdonshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL0570).
What are common misspellings of "Covington"?
Common misspellings include "ccovington", "coivngton", "covignton", "covinggton", "covingotn". The correct spelling is "Covington".
What is the origin of the word "Covington"?
From Old English Cofingtun, from Cofa (a masculine given name) + -ing (“belonging to”) + -tun (“settlement”, literally “Cofa's town”). See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Similar English words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Covington", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list