Oakham
/ˈəʊkəm/
"oakham" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Oakham” is uncommon English (frequency #98,507 among 15,494 “O” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,507
- frequency rank, English
- 15,494
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A town and civil parish (with a town council) in and the county town of Rutland, England (OS grid ref SK8508).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Oakham |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈəʊkəm/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #98,507 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Oakham” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Oakham is uncommon English at frequency #98,507 among 15,494 “O” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈəʊkəm/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for Oakham in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is Oakham, spelled O-A-K-H-A-M.
Definition
- 1A town and civil parish (with a town council) in and the county town of Rutland, England (OS grid ref SK8508).
- 2An area of Dudley, Sandwell borough, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SO9689).
- 3A town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States.
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 “Oakham”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is O-A-K-H-A-M - 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.