Katowice
/ˌkatəˈviːtsə/
"katowice" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Katowice” is uncommon English (frequency #53,642 among 1,236 “K” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,642
- frequency rank, English
- 1,236
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A city in southern Poland; the capital of Silesian Voivodeship.
Corpus desk
Index EN-katowice · Katowice · English
Katowice · rank #53,642 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,642
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,236
- PHOTO-FINISH Kaspersky
Nearest frequency peer: Kaspersky (-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 “Katowice”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Kailash
Kailash
46,362 corpus weight
- Kaspersky
Kaspersky
46,360 corpus weight
- Katowice
Katowice
46,359 corpus weight
- kendo
kendo
46,357 corpus weight
- kha
kha
46,355 corpus weight
- knockoff
knockoff
46,351 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Katowice” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Katowice |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˌkatəˈviːtsə/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #53,642 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Katowice” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Katowice is uncommon English at frequency #53,642 among 1,236 “K” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˌkatəˈviːtsə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A city in southern Poland; the capital of Silesian Voivodeship.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Katowice in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Polish Katowice. The correct English form is Katowice, spelled K-A-T-O-W-I-C-E.
Definition
- 1A city in southern Poland; the capital of Silesian Voivodeship.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Katowice appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Any English traveller approaching Katowice will be strongly reminded of Lancashire.
Trains from Warsaw to Vienna now go by the shorter route from Warsaw to Katowice instead of via Cracow.
Etymology
Polish Katowice.
This word in other languages
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
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).