harborough
"harborough" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“harborough” is uncommon English (frequency #85,326 among 2,646 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,326
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Obsolete spelling of harbour.
Corpus desk
Index EN-harborough · harborough · English
harborough · rank #85,326 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,326
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH Hanwell
Nearest frequency peer: Hanwell (-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 “harborough”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Halima
Halima
14,681 corpus weight
- hangry
hangry
14,679 corpus weight
- Hansson
Hansson
14,677 corpus weight
- Hanwell
Hanwell
14,676 corpus weight
- harborough
harborough
14,675 corpus weight
- havering
havering
14,671 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “harborough” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | harborough |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #85,326 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “harborough” in English
Rare enough to double-check
harborough is uncommon English at frequency #85,326 among 2,646 “H” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Obsolete spelling of harbour.".
harborough has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is harborough, spelled H-A-R-B-O-R-O-U-G-H.
Definition
- 1Obsolete spelling of harbour.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how harborough appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] having upon sea borde greate sandes, which do make the harborough good, and bytwene the londing place and the towne is, at the leste, 40 score tayloures yardes, …
[T]here aboutes dwelt greate multitudes of people half wilde, hiding thẽſelues in caues of the grounde, of ſmall ſtature, and very fearefull, for as ſoone as they ſawe them they fled into their holes, and that there was a great riuer and very good harborough.
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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