Edgware
/ˈɛd͡ʒwɛə(ɹ)/
"edgware" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Edgware” is uncommon English (frequency #63,583 among 18,836 “E” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,583
- frequency rank, English
- 18,836
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A large suburb in the borough of Barnet, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ1992).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Edgware |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈɛd͡ʒwɛə(ɹ)/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #63,583 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Edgware” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Edgware is uncommon English at frequency #63,583 among 18,836 “E” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈɛd͡ʒwɛə(ɹ)/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A large suburb in the borough of Barnet, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ1992).".
Zero misspellings are on record for Edgware in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is Edgware, spelled E-D-G-W-A-R-E.
Definition
- 1A large suburb in the borough of Barnet, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ1992).
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 “Edgware”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is E-D-G-W-A-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.