Roxburgh
/ˈɹɔksb(ə)ɹə/
"roxburgh" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Roxburgh” is uncommon English (frequency #61,086 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,086
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A placename:
Corpus desk
Index EN-roxburgh · Roxburgh · English
Roxburgh · rank #61,086 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,086
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH rowboat
Nearest frequency peer: rowboat (-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 “Roxburgh”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- rosewater
rosewater
38,919 corpus weight
- Rossiter
Rossiter
38,918 corpus weight
- rowboat
rowboat
38,916 corpus weight
- Roxburgh
Roxburgh
38,915 corpus weight
- rundle
rundle
38,914 corpus weight
- sahih
sahih
38,912 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Roxburgh” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Roxburgh |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈɹɔksb(ə)ɹə/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #61,086 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Roxburgh” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Roxburgh is uncommon English at frequency #61,086 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈɹɔksb(ə)ɹə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Roxburgh, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From the Old English personal name Hrōc, a byname from hrōc (“rook, kind of crow”), + -s- + burg (“fortified place”). The correct English form is Roxburgh, spelled R-O-X-B-U-R-G-H.
Definition
- 1A placename:
- 2A placename:
- 3A placename:
- 4A habitational surname from Old English.
Etymology
From the Old English personal name Hrōc, a byname from hrōc (“rook, kind of crow”), + -s- + burg (“fortified place”).
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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