natick
"natick" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“natick” is uncommon English (frequency #62,355 among 24,391 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,355
- frequency rank, English
- 24,391
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - An intersection of two obscure crossword puzzle clues.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | natick |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #62,355 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “natick” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
natick is uncommon English at frequency #62,355 among 24,391 “N” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An intersection of two obscure crossword puzzle clues.".
Zero misspellings are on record for natick in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Named after Natick, Massachusetts, used as an example of an obscure clue with, “Town at the eighth mile of the Boston Marathon”. The town is named after the local native word from the Natick people for “Land of Many Hills”. The correct English form is natick, spelled N-A-T-I-C-K.
Definition
- 1An intersection of two obscure crossword puzzle clues.
Etymology
Named after Natick, Massachusetts, used as an example of an obscure clue with, “Town at the eighth mile of the Boston Marathon”. The town is named after the local native word from the Natick people for “Land of Many Hills”.
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 “natick”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is N-A-T-I-C-K - 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.