Keighley
/ˈkiːθli/
"keighley" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Keighley” is uncommon English (frequency #60,214 among 9,255 “K” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,214
- frequency rank, English
- 9,255
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A town and civil parish with a town council in the Metropolitan Borough of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE0641).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Keighley |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈkiːθli/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #60,214 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Keighley” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Keighley is uncommon English at frequency #60,214 among 9,255 “K” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈkiːθli/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Keighley, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Recorded as Middle English Chichelai in the Domesday Book, the town is named with the Old English personal name *Cyhha + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”). The correct English form is Keighley, spelled K-E-I-G-H-L-E-Y.
Definition
- 1A town and civil parish with a town council in the Metropolitan Borough of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE0641).
- 2A habitational surname from Old English.
Etymology
Recorded as Middle English Chichelai in the Domesday Book, the town is named with the Old English personal name *Cyhha + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”).
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 “Keighley”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is K-E-I-G-H-L-E-Y - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈkiːθli/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.