Daventry
/ˈdævəntɹi/
"daventry" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Daventry” is uncommon English (frequency #84,150 among 26,416 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,150
- frequency rank, English
- 26,416
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A market town and civil parish with a town council in West Northamptonshire, Northamptonshire, England (OS grid ref SP5762).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Daventry |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈdævəntɹi/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #84,150 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Daventry” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Daventry is uncommon English at frequency #84,150 among 26,416 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈdævəntɹi/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Daventry, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is Daventry, spelled D-A-V-E-N-T-R-Y.
Definition
- 1A market town and civil parish with a town council in West Northamptonshire, Northamptonshire, England (OS grid ref SP5762).
- 2A former local government district of Northamptonshire, formed in 1974, with its headquarters in the town of Daventry; it was abolished on 1 April 2021 and merged into the unitary authority of West Northamptonshire.
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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Using “Daventry”
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- The one correct English spelling is D-A-V-E-N-T-R-Y - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈdævəntɹi/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.