Katowice
/ˌkatəˈviːtsə/
"katowice" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Katowice” is uncommon English (frequency #53,642 among 9,255 “K” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,642
- frequency rank, English
- 9,255
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A city in southern Poland; the capital of Silesian Voivodeship.
| 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) |
Where “Katowice” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Katowice is uncommon English at frequency #53,642 among 9,255 “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.
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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Using “Katowice”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is K-A-T-O-W-I-C-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.