Frederica
/ˌfɹɛdəˈɹiː.kə/
"frederica" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Frederica” is uncommon English (frequency #71,514 among 2,507 “F” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,514
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A female given name from the Germanic languages, of quite rare usage, masculine equivalent Frederick.
Corpus desk
Index EN-frederica · Frederica · English
Frederica · rank #71,514 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,514
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH Francisca
Nearest frequency peer: Francisca (-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 “Frederica”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- formic
formic
28,490 corpus weight
- Francisca
Francisca
28,489 corpus weight
- Frederica
Frederica
28,487 corpus weight
- fug
fug
28,484 corpus weight
- Fuzhou
Fuzhou
28,483 corpus weight
- gainfully
gainfully
28,481 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Frederica” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Frederica |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˌfɹɛdəˈɹiː.kə/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #71,514 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Frederica” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Frederica is uncommon English at frequency #71,514 among 2,507 “F” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˌfɹɛdəˈɹiː.kə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for Frederica in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is Frederica, spelled F-R-E-D-E-R-I-C-A.
Definition
- 1A female given name from the Germanic languages, of quite rare usage, masculine equivalent Frederick.
- 2A town in Delaware.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Frederica appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
And there was the basic yet awful matter of my name, Frederica Hatch, due to the unfortunate coincidence of a maternal grandmother named Frieda, who died six weeks before I was born, and a favorite paternal great-uncle Frederic, who'd been a Freedom Rider at eighty. - - - When I asked if an accidental boy would have been Frederic, they said no. It was Fre…
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).