kersey
/ˈkɜːzi/
"kersey" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“kersey” is uncommon English (frequency #70,805 among 9,255 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,805
- frequency rank, English
- 9,255
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A type of rough woollen cloth.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kersey |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkɜːzi/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #70,805 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “kersey” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
kersey is uncommon English at frequency #70,805 among 9,255 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈkɜːzi/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A type of rough woollen cloth.".
kersey doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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: Inherited from Middle English kersey, perhaps from the village of Kersey in Suffolk, England, UK, in the region where the cloth was made. The correct English form is kersey, spelled K-E-R-S-E-Y.
Definition
- 1A type of rough woollen cloth.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English kersey, perhaps from the village of Kersey in Suffolk, England, UK, in the region where the cloth was made.
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 “kersey”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is K-E-R-S-E-Y - 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.