Segovia
/sɪˈɡəʊviə/
"segovia" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Segovia” is uncommon English (frequency #61,802 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,802
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A city in Castile and León, Spain.
Corpus desk
Index EN-segovia · Segovia · English
Segovia · rank #61,802 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,802
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH secularization
Nearest frequency peer: secularization (-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 “Segovia”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- scummy
scummy
38,203 corpus weight
- Seaver
Seaver
38,202 corpus weight
- secretory
secretory
38,201 corpus weight
- secularizat…
secularization
38,200 corpus weight
- Segovia
Segovia
38,199 corpus weight
- sheeple
sheeple
38,196 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Segovia” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Segovia |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /sɪˈɡəʊviə/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #61,802 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Segovia” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Segovia is uncommon English at frequency #61,802 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /sɪˈɡəʊviə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for Segovia in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Spanish Segovia, from Latin Segovia, from Celtiberian Segouia, from a suffixed form of Proto-Celtic *segos (“victory”). Related city names include Segeda and Segontia. The correct English form is Segovia, spelled S-E-G-O-V-I-A.
Definition
- 1A city in Castile and León, Spain.
- 2A province of Castile and León, Spain.
- 3The letter S in the Spanish spelling alphabet
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish Segovia, from Latin Segovia, from Celtiberian Segouia, from a suffixed form of Proto-Celtic *segos (“victory”). Related city names include Segeda and Segontia.
This word in other languages
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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