Ilfracombe
/ˈɪlfɹəkuːm/
"ilfracombe" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Ilfracombe” is uncommon English (frequency #83,363 among 2,140 “I” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,363
- frequency rank, English
- 2,140
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A seaside town and civil parish with a town council in North Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SS5147).
Corpus desk
Index EN-ilfracombe · Ilfracombe · English
Ilfracombe · rank #83,363 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,363
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH immunohistoch…
Nearest frequency peer: immunohistochemical (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Ilfracombe”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- idealization
idealization
16,642 corpus weight
- Ilfracombe
Ilfracombe
16,638 corpus weight
- immunohisto…
immunohistochemical
16,636 corpus weight
- immunohisto…
immunohistochemistry
16,635 corpus weight
- impactor
impactor
16,634 corpus weight
- impugn
impugn
16,633 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Ilfracombe” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ilfracombe |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈɪlfɹəkuːm/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #83,363 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Ilfracombe” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Ilfracombe is uncommon English at frequency #83,363 among 2,140 “I” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈɪlfɹəkuːm/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A seaside town and civil parish with a town council in North Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SS5147).".
Ilfracombe doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is Ilfracombe, spelled I-L-F-R-A-C-O-M-B-E.
Definition
- 1A seaside town and civil parish with a town council in North Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SS5147).
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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