Ostend
/ˈɒstˌɛnd/
"ostend" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Ostend” is uncommon English (frequency #68,503 among 1,431 “O” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,503
- frequency rank, English
- 1,431
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A coastal city and municipality in West Flanders, Belgium.
Corpus desk
Index EN-ostend · Ostend · English
Ostend · rank #68,503 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,503
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,431
- PHOTO-FINISH outtake
Nearest frequency peer: outtake (+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 “Ostend”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- officialdom
officialdom
31,505 corpus weight
- onboarding
onboarding
31,503 corpus weight
- Ostend
Ostend
31,498 corpus weight
- outtake
outtake
31,497 corpus weight
- overpayment
overpayment
31,494 corpus weight
- overtone
overtone
31,492 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Ostend” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ostend |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈɒstˌɛnd/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #68,503 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Ostend” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Ostend is uncommon English at frequency #68,503 among 1,431 “O” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈɒstˌɛnd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A coastal city and municipality in West Flanders, Belgium.".
Ostend doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Dutch Oostende, from oost (“east”) + ende (“end”); in the middle ages the city was on the easter end of an island, Testerep, which is now attached to the main land. Doublet of East End. The correct English form is Ostend, spelled O-S-T-E-N-D.
Definition
- 1A coastal city and municipality in West Flanders, Belgium.
Etymology
From Dutch Oostende, from oost (“east”) + ende (“end”); in the middle ages the city was on the easter end of an island, Testerep, which is now attached to the main land. Doublet of East End.
This word in other languages
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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