Grafton
/ˈɡɹɑːftɒn/
"grafton" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Grafton” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #29,296. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,296
- frequency rank, English
- 18,276
- “G” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Any of various towns across the English-speaking world:
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Grafton |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈɡɹɑːftɒn/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #29,296 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Grafton” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Grafton (IPA /ˈɡɹɑːftɒn/), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #29,296 among 18,276 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 30 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Grafton, with forms such as "garfton", "ggrafton", and "graffton". 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. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "Groton", "Grayson", "graft", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Old English grāf (“grove”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”). The correct English form is Grafton, spelled G-R-A-F-T-O-N.
Definition
- 1Any of various towns across the English-speaking world:
- 2Any of various towns across the English-speaking world:
- 3Any of various towns across the English-speaking world:
- 4Any of various towns across the English-speaking world:
- 5Any of various towns across the English-speaking world:
- 6Any of various towns across the English-speaking world:
- 7Any of various towns across the English-speaking world:
- 8Any of various towns across the English-speaking world:
- 9Any of various towns across the English-speaking world:
- 10Any of various towns across the English-speaking world:
- 11Any of various towns across the English-speaking world:
- 12Any of various towns across the English-speaking world:
- 13Any of various towns across the English-speaking world:
- 14Any of various towns across the English-speaking world:
- 15Any of various towns across the English-speaking world:
- 16Any of various towns across the English-speaking world:
- 17Any of various towns across the English-speaking world:
- 18Any of various towns across the English-speaking world:
- 19Any of various towns across the English-speaking world:
- 20Any of various towns across the English-speaking world:
- 21Any of various towns across the English-speaking world:
- 22Any of various towns across the English-speaking world:
- 23Any of various towns across the English-speaking world:
- 24Any of various towns across the English-speaking world:
- 25Any of various towns across the English-speaking world:
- 26Any of various towns across the English-speaking world:
- 27Any of various towns across the English-speaking world:
- 28Any of various towns across the English-speaking world:
- 29An English dukedom.
- 30A habitational surname from Old English.
Etymology
From Old English grāf (“grove”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- garfton
- ggrafton
- graffton
- grafotn
- graftno
- graftonn
- graftton
- gratfon
- grfaton
- grrafton
- rgafton
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Grafton - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 “Grafton”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is G-R-A-F-T-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈɡɹɑːftɒn/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “Groton” - see the side-by-side comparison. Grafton vs Groton
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Same frequency band
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.