Phillipsburg
"phillipsburg" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Phillipsburg” is uncommon English (frequency #90,836 among 46,516 “P” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,836
- frequency rank, English
- 46,516
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A census-designated place in Tift County, Georgia, United States.
Corpus desk
Index EN-phillipsburg · Phillipsburg · English
Phillipsburg · rank #90,836 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,836
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 46,516
- PHOTO-FINISH pharmacothera…
Nearest frequency peer: pharmacotherapy (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Phillipsburg”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
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9,169 corpus weight
- pharmacothe…
pharmacotherapy
9,166 corpus weight
- Phillipsburg
Phillipsburg
9,165 corpus weight
- photographi…
photographically
9,162 corpus weight
- phyla
phyla
9,161 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Phillipsburg” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Phillipsburg |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #90,836 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Phillipsburg” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Phillipsburg is uncommon English at frequency #90,836 among 46,516 “P” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Phillipsburg, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Phillips + -burg. The correct English form is Phillipsburg, spelled P-H-I-L-L-I-P-S-B-U-R-G.
Definition
- 1A census-designated place in Tift County, Georgia, United States.
- 2A city, the county seat of Phillips County, Kansas, United States.
- 3A village in Laclede County, Missouri, United States.
- 4A town in Warren County, New Jersey, United States.
- 5A village in Montgomery County, Ohio, United States.
Etymology
From Phillips + -burg.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.