Oroville
"oroville" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Oroville” is uncommon English (frequency #56,953 among 1,431 “O” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,953
- frequency rank, English
- 1,431
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A city, the county seat of Butte County, California, United States.
Corpus desk
Index EN-oroville · Oroville · English
Oroville · rank #56,953 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,953
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,431
- PHOTO-FINISH Orme
Nearest frequency peer: Orme (-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 “Oroville”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- optimistica…
optimistically
43,052 corpus weight
- Orlov
Orlov
43,051 corpus weight
- Orly
Orly
43,050 corpus weight
- Orme
Orme
43,049 corpus weight
- Oroville
Oroville
43,048 corpus weight
- oud
oud
43,046 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Oroville” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Oroville |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #56,953 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Oroville” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Oroville is uncommon English at frequency #56,953 among 1,431 “O” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for Oroville in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: The town in California was originally called Ophir City, but the name was changed to Oroville when the first post office opened in 1854, from Spanish oro (“gold”) + -ville. The correct English form is Oroville, spelled O-R-O-V-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1A city, the county seat of Butte County, California, United States.
- 2A city in Okanogan County, in north-central Washington, United States.
Etymology
The town in California was originally called Ophir City, but the name was changed to Oroville when the first post office opened in 1854, from Spanish oro (“gold”) + -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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