Hillingdon
/ˈhɪlɪŋdən/
"hillingdon" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Hillingdon” is uncommon English (frequency #77,767 among 2,646 “H” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,767
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A London borough on the west side of Greater London, England.
Corpus desk
Index EN-hillingdon · Hillingdon · English
Hillingdon · rank #77,767 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,767
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH Hieronymus
Nearest frequency peer: Hieronymus (-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 “Hillingdon”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- hexes
hexes
22,237 corpus weight
- hierarchica…
hierarchically
22,236 corpus weight
- Hieronymus
Hieronymus
22,235 corpus weight
- Hillingdon
Hillingdon
22,234 corpus weight
- hisself
hisself
22,232 corpus weight
- holography
holography
22,231 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Hillingdon” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Hillingdon |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈhɪlɪŋdən/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #77,767 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Hillingdon” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Hillingdon is uncommon English at frequency #77,767 among 2,646 “H” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈhɪlɪŋdən/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for Hillingdon in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is Hillingdon, spelled H-I-L-L-I-N-G-D-O-N.
Definition
- 1A London borough on the west side of Greater London, England.
- 2A suburban area in Greater London, within the same borough (OS grid ref TQ0783).
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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