Scoville
"scoville" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Scoville” is uncommon English (frequency #75,392 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,392
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname from Norman.
Corpus desk
Index EN-scoville · Scoville · English
Scoville · rank #75,392 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,392
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH schmaltz
Nearest frequency peer: schmaltz (-2 rank slots)
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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 “Scoville”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
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24,611 corpus weight
- Scoville
Scoville
24,609 corpus weight
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24,597 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Scoville” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Scoville |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #75,392 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Scoville” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Scoville is uncommon English at frequency #75,392 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname from Norman.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Scoville in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: English surname of Norman origin, from the town of Escoville, in Normandy. The correct English form is Scoville, spelled S-C-O-V-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1A surname from Norman.
Etymology
English surname of Norman origin, from the town of Escoville, in Normandy.
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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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.