Reddington
"reddington" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Reddington” is uncommon English (frequency #81,756 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,756
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname from Old English.
Corpus desk
Index EN-reddington · Reddington · English
Reddington · rank #81,756 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,756
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH reddened
Nearest frequency peer: reddened (-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 “Reddington”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- reck
reck
18,250 corpus weight
- recode
recode
18,249 corpus weight
- recut
recut
18,247 corpus weight
- reddened
reddened
18,246 corpus weight
- Reddington
Reddington
18,245 corpus weight
- reflexology
reflexology
18,244 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Reddington” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Reddington |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #81,756 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Reddington” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Reddington is uncommon English at frequency #81,756 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Reddington has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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: Perhaps a habitational surname from a lost place in England, from an Old English personal name *Rēada + -ing (“belonging to”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”). The correct English form is Reddington, spelled R-E-D-D-I-N-G-T-O-N.
Definition
- 1A surname from Old English.
- 2An unincorporated community in Jackson County, Indiana, United States.
Etymology
Perhaps a habitational surname from a lost place in England, from an Old English personal name *Rēada + -ing (“belonging to”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
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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