Peekskill
"peekskill" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Peekskill” is uncommon English (frequency #78,928 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,928
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A city in Westchester County, New York, United States.
Corpus desk
Index EN-peekskill · Peekskill · English
Peekskill · rank #78,928 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,928
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH Peloponnese
Nearest frequency peer: Peloponnese (+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 “Peekskill”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- patentable
patentable
21,077 corpus weight
- Patroclus
Patroclus
21,076 corpus weight
- patronus
patronus
21,075 corpus weight
- Peekskill
Peekskill
21,073 corpus weight
- Peloponnese
Peloponnese
21,072 corpus weight
- Pendergast
Pendergast
21,071 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Peekskill” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Peekskill |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #78,928 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Peekskill” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Peekskill is uncommon English at frequency #78,928 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A city in Westchester County, New York, United States.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Peekskill, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: From the name Jan Peeck + kill (“creek”), from Dutch kil. The correct English form is Peekskill, spelled P-E-E-K-S-K-I-L-L.
Definition
- 1A city in Westchester County, New York, United States.
Etymology
From the name Jan Peeck + kill (“creek”), from Dutch kil.
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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