Segovia
/sɪˈɡəʊviə/
"segovia" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Segovia” is uncommon English (frequency #61,802 among 54,294 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,802
- frequency rank, English
- 54,294
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A city in Castile and León, Spain.
| 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) |
Where “Segovia” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Segovia is uncommon English at frequency #61,802 among 54,294 “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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Using “Segovia”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is S-E-G-O-V-I-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /sɪˈɡəʊviə/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
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.