Felixstowe
/ˈfiː.lɪk.stoʊ/
"felixstowe" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Felixstowe” is uncommon English (frequency #72,306 among 2,507 “F” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,306
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A coastal town, port, and civil parish with a town council in East Suffolk district, Suffolk, England, previously in Suffolk Coastal district (OS grid ref TM3034).
Corpus desk
Index EN-felixstowe · Felixstowe · English
Felixstowe · rank #72,306 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,306
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH fatuous
Nearest frequency peer: fatuous (-2 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 “Felixstowe”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Faraj
Faraj
27,701 corpus weight
- fatuous
fatuous
27,697 corpus weight
- Felixstowe
Felixstowe
27,695 corpus weight
- festschrift
festschrift
27,692 corpus weight
- fiqh
fiqh
27,690 corpus weight
- Fitton
Fitton
27,688 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Felixstowe” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Felixstowe |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈfiː.lɪk.stoʊ/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #72,306 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Felixstowe” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Felixstowe is uncommon English at frequency #72,306 among 2,507 “F” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈfiː.lɪk.stoʊ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A coastal town, port, and civil parish with a town council in East Suffolk district, Suffolk, England, previously in Suffolk Coastal district (OS grid ref TM3034).".
Felixstowe has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: First attested as Filchestou in 1254. Derived from a compound of the name of Saint Felix of Burgundy and Middle English stowe (“place, stead”). The correct English form is Felixstowe, spelled F-E-L-I-X-S-T-O-W-E.
Definition
- 1A coastal town, port, and civil parish with a town council in East Suffolk district, Suffolk, England, previously in Suffolk Coastal district (OS grid ref TM3034).
Etymology
First attested as Filchestou in 1254. Derived from a compound of the name of Saint Felix of Burgundy and Middle English stowe (“place, stead”).
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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