Rawdon
/ˈɹɔːdən/
"rawdon" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Rawdon” is uncommon English (frequency #79,904 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,904
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - A village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE2139).
Corpus desk
Index EN-rawdon · Rawdon · English
Rawdon · rank #79,904 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,904
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH rancour
Nearest frequency peer: rancour (-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 “Rawdon”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- raad
raad
20,104 corpus weight
- Radhakrishn…
Radhakrishnan
20,103 corpus weight
- Ramesses
Ramesses
20,100 corpus weight
- rancour
rancour
20,098 corpus weight
- Rawdon
Rawdon
20,097 corpus weight
- RDM
RDM
20,095 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Rawdon” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Rawdon |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈɹɔːdən/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #79,904 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Rawdon” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Rawdon is uncommon English at frequency #79,904 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈɹɔːdən/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Rawdon, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Old Norse rauðr (“red”) + Old English dūn (“hill”). The correct English form is Rawdon, spelled R-A-W-D-O-N.
Definition
- 1A village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE2139).
- 2A former township in Hastings County, Ontario, Canada, now included in Stirling-Rawdon township.
- 3A municipality in Matawinie Regional County Municipality, Lanaudière region, Quebec, Canada.
- 4A habitational surname.
Etymology
From Old Norse rauðr (“red”) + Old English dūn (“hill”).
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 September 2, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 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.