Leadville
"leadville" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Leadville” is uncommon English (frequency #66,037 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,037
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A city, the county seat of Lake County, Colorado, United States.
Corpus desk
Index EN-leadville · Leadville · English
Leadville · rank #66,037 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,037
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH LCM
Nearest frequency peer: LCM (-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 “Leadville”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Latam
Latam
33,968 corpus weight
- Latinx
Latinx
33,966 corpus weight
- LCM
LCM
33,965 corpus weight
- Leadville
Leadville
33,964 corpus weight
- legless
legless
33,963 corpus weight
- leman
leman
33,962 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Leadville” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Leadville |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #66,037 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Leadville” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Leadville is uncommon English at frequency #66,037 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Leadville 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 usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: From the mineral lead + -ville. The correct English form is Leadville, spelled L-E-A-D-V-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1A city, the county seat of Lake County, Colorado, United States.
- 2A small town in Warrumbungle Shire, New South Wales, Australia.
Etymology
From the mineral lead + -ville.
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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).