Skeffington
"skeffington" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Skeffington” is uncommon English (frequency #87,834 among 54,294 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,834
- frequency rank, English
- 54,294
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A village and civil parish of Harborough district, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SK739025).
Corpus desk
Index EN-skeffington · Skeffington · English
Skeffington · rank #87,834 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,834
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 54,294
- PHOTO-FINISH skene
Nearest frequency peer: skene (+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 “Skeffington”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- silverfish
silverfish
12,172 corpus weight
- sinewy
sinewy
12,171 corpus weight
- Singhal
Singhal
12,170 corpus weight
- Skeffington
Skeffington
12,167 corpus weight
- skene
skene
12,166 corpus weight
- sloe
sloe
12,161 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Skeffington” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Skeffington |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #87,834 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Skeffington” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Skeffington is uncommon English at frequency #87,834 among 54,294 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Skeffington, 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 *Sċeaft, a byname from sċeaft (“shaft”), + -ing (“belonging to”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”). The correct English form is Skeffington, spelled S-K-E-F-F-I-N-G-T-O-N.
Definition
- 1A village and civil parish of Harborough district, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SK739025).
- 2A habitational surname from Old English.
Etymology
From the Old English personal name *Sċeaft, a byname from sċeaft (“shaft”), + -ing (“belonging to”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Skeffington", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.