Poughkeepsie
/pəˈkɪpsi/
"poughkeepsie" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Poughkeepsie” has 17 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #39,037. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,037
- frequency rank, English
- 46,516
- “P” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A city, the county seat of Dutchess County, New York, United States.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Poughkeepsie |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /pəˈkɪpsi/ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #39,037 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Poughkeepsie” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around Poughkeepsie (IPA /pəˈkɪpsi/), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #39,037 among 46,516 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A city, the county seat of Dutchess County, New York, United States.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for Poughkeepsie, with forms such as "opughkeepsie", "poguhkeepsie", and "pougghkeepsie". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From a word in Wappinger Munsee, roughly U-puku-ipi-sing (“the reed-covered lodge by the little-water place”). The correct English form is Poughkeepsie, spelled P-O-U-G-H-K-E-E-P-S-I-E.
Definition
- 1A city, the county seat of Dutchess County, New York, United States.
Etymology
From a word in Wappinger Munsee, roughly U-puku-ipi-sing (“the reed-covered lodge by the little-water place”).
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opughkeepsie
- poguhkeepsie
- pougghkeepsie
- poughekepsie
- poughhkeepsie
- poughkeepise
- poughkeeppsie
- poughkeepsei
- poughkeepssie
- poughkeespie
- poughkepesie
- poughkepsie
- poughkkeepsie
- pougkheepsie
- pouhgkeepsie
- ppoughkeepsie
- puoghkeepsie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Poughkeepsie - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Using “Poughkeepsie”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is P-O-U-G-H-K-E-E-P-S-I-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /pəˈkɪpsi/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.