Redgrave
"redgrave" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Redgrave” is uncommon English (frequency #51,351 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,351
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A village and civil parish in Mid Suffolk district, Suffolk, England (OS grid ref TM0478).
Corpus desk
Index EN-redgrave · Redgrave · English
Redgrave · rank #51,351 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,351
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH rebus
Nearest frequency peer: rebus (-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 “Redgrave”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- rearguard
rearguard
48,654 corpus weight
- reasonablen…
reasonableness
48,653 corpus weight
- rebus
rebus
48,651 corpus weight
- Redgrave
Redgrave
48,650 corpus weight
- refereed
refereed
48,649 corpus weight
- Reims
Reims
48,646 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Redgrave” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Redgrave |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #51,351 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Redgrave” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Redgrave is uncommon English at frequency #51,351 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Redgrave, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Old English hrēod (“reed”) + græf (“grave; trench, ditch”). The correct English form is Redgrave, spelled R-E-D-G-R-A-V-E.
Definition
- 1A village and civil parish in Mid Suffolk district, Suffolk, England (OS grid ref TM0478).
- 2A habitational surname from Old English.
Etymology
From Old English hrēod (“reed”) + græf (“grave; trench, ditch”).
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).