Freetown
"freetown" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Freetown” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #35,726. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,726
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The capital city of Sierra Leone.
Corpus desk
Index EN-freetown · Freetown · English
Freetown · rank #35,726 · 12 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,726
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH fragmentary
Nearest frequency peer: fragmentary (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “Freetown”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- forlorn
forlorn
64,278 corpus weight
- Foucault
Foucault
64,277 corpus weight
- fragmentary
fragmentary
64,276 corpus weight
- Freetown
Freetown
64,275 corpus weight
- gab
gab
64,273 corpus weight
- Gambino
Gambino
64,272 corpus weight
What this shows “Freetown” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Freetown |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #35,726 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Freetown”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around Freetown, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #35,726 among 2,507 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "The capital city of Sierra Leone.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Freetown, with forms such as "feretown", "ffreetown", and "freeotwn". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From free + town, as being formerly settled by freed slaves. The correct English form is Freetown, spelled F-R-E-E-T-O-W-N.
Definition
- 1The capital city of Sierra Leone.
Etymology
From free + town, as being formerly settled by freed slaves.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- feretown
- ffreetown
- freeotwn
- freetonw
- freetownn
- freetowwn
- freettown
- freetwon
- freteown
- fretown
- frreetown
- rfeetown
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Freetown - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Freetown", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).