Cowichan
"cowichan" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Cowichan” is uncommon English (frequency #94,718 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,718
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Of or relating to this tribe.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cowichan · Cowichan · English
Cowichan · rank #94,718 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,718
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH courser
Nearest frequency peer: courser (-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 “Cowichan”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Corydon
Corydon
5,287 corpus weight
- cosign
cosign
5,286 corpus weight
- courser
courser
5,284 corpus weight
- Cowichan
Cowichan
5,283 corpus weight
- Crapo
Crapo
5,281 corpus weight
- crewneck
crewneck
5,279 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Cowichan” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Cowichan |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #94,718 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Cowichan” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Cowichan is uncommon English at frequency #94,718 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Cowichan, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is Cowichan, spelled C-O-W-I-C-H-A-N.
Definition
- 1Of or relating to this tribe.
- 2Of or relating to a form of distinctively-patterned heavy knitting developed by the tribe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Cowichan appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cowichan knitting
a Cowichan sweater
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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