Exmoor
"exmoor" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Exmoor” is uncommon English (frequency #62,129 among 2,246 “E” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,129
- frequency rank, English
- 2,246
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A moor and national park in Devon and Somerset, southern England.
Corpus desk
Index EN-exmoor · Exmoor · English
Exmoor · rank #62,129 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,129
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,246
- PHOTO-FINISH Evesham
Nearest frequency peer: Evesham (-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 “Exmoor”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Eudora
Eudora
37,874 corpus weight
- Evesham
Evesham
37,873 corpus weight
- Exmoor
Exmoor
37,872 corpus weight
- expander
expander
37,871 corpus weight
- expansionism
expansionism
37,870 corpus weight
- fanon
fanon
37,867 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Exmoor” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Exmoor |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #62,129 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Exmoor” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Exmoor is uncommon English at frequency #62,129 among 2,246 “E” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A moor and national park in Devon and Somerset, southern England.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Exmoor, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Old English Ex + mōr (“moor”), 'the wet land where the River Exe rises'. The correct English form is Exmoor, spelled E-X-M-O-O-R.
Definition
- 1A moor and national park in Devon and Somerset, southern England.
Etymology
From Old English Ex + mōr (“moor”), 'the wet land where the River Exe rises'.
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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