Evesham
/ˈiːvʃəm/
"evesham" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Evesham” is uncommon English (frequency #62,128 among 18,836 “E” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,128
- frequency rank, English
- 18,836
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A town and civil parish with a town council in Wychavon district, Worcestershire, England (OS grid ref SP0343).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Evesham |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈiːvʃəm/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #62,128 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Evesham” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Evesham is uncommon English at frequency #62,128 among 18,836 “E” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈiːvʃəm/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A town and civil parish with a town council in Wychavon district, Worcestershire, England (OS grid ref SP0343).".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Evesham, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: Inherited from Middle English Evesham, from Old English Eofesham (literally “Eof's enclosure”), from Eof (given name) + hamm (“enclosure”). The correct English form is Evesham, spelled E-V-E-S-H-A-M.
Definition
- 1A town and civil parish with a town council in Wychavon district, Worcestershire, England (OS grid ref SP0343).
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English Evesham, from Old English Eofesham (literally “Eof's enclosure”), from Eof (given name) + hamm (“enclosure”).
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 “Evesham”
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- The one correct English spelling is E-V-E-S-H-A-M - 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.