Owensboro
"owensboro" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Owensboro” is uncommon English (frequency #64,595 among 1,431 “O” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,595
- frequency rank, English
- 1,431
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A city, the county seat of Daviess County, Kentucky, United States.
Corpus desk
Index EN-owensboro · Owensboro · English
Owensboro · rank #64,595 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,595
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,431
- PHOTO-FINISH outstandingly
Nearest frequency peer: outstandingly (-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 “Owensboro”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Ouagadougou
Ouagadougou
35,409 corpus weight
- outstanding…
outstandingly
35,407 corpus weight
- Owensboro
Owensboro
35,406 corpus weight
- owings
owings
35,405 corpus weight
- papyri
papyri
35,404 corpus weight
- parathyroid
parathyroid
35,403 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Owensboro” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Owensboro |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #64,595 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Owensboro” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Owensboro is uncommon English at frequency #64,595 among 1,431 “O” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A city, the county seat of Daviess County, Kentucky, United States.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Owensboro, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Owen + -s- + -boro, named after Abraham Owen; originally Owensborough. The correct English form is Owensboro, spelled O-W-E-N-S-B-O-R-O.
Definition
- 1A city, the county seat of Daviess County, Kentucky, United States.
Etymology
From Owen + -s- + -boro, named after Abraham Owen; originally Owensborough.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).