Spotsylvania
/ˌspɒt.sɪlˈveɪ.ni.ə/
"spotsylvania" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Spotsylvania” is uncommon English (frequency #80,906 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,906
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - a battle in the American Civil War; see Battle of Spotsylvania Court House.
Corpus desk
Index EN-spotsylvania · Spotsylvania · English
Spotsylvania · rank #80,906 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,906
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH spondylitis
Nearest frequency peer: spondylitis (-2 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 “Spotsylvania”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Somerton
Somerton
19,100 corpus weight
- spic
spic
19,099 corpus weight
- spondylitis
spondylitis
19,097 corpus weight
- Spotsylvania
Spotsylvania
19,095 corpus weight
- springwood
springwood
19,093 corpus weight
- Starck
Starck
19,090 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Spotsylvania” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Spotsylvania |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˌspɒt.sɪlˈveɪ.ni.ə/ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #80,906 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Spotsylvania” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Spotsylvania is uncommon English at frequency #80,906 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˌspɒt.sɪlˈveɪ.ni.ə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Spotsylvania, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Alexander Spotswood (British colonial Lieutenant Governor of Virginia). From Spotswood (“from Spots(wood)”) + sylvan (“pertaining to woods, forest”, from (Spots)wood) + -ia. The correct English form is Spotsylvania, spelled S-P-O-T-S-Y-L-V-A-N-I-A.
Definition
- 1a battle in the American Civil War; see Battle of Spotsylvania Court House.
- 2a commuter rail station in Spotsylvania County, Virginia.
Etymology
From Alexander Spotswood (British colonial Lieutenant Governor of Virginia). From Spotswood (“from Spots(wood)”) + sylvan (“pertaining to woods, forest”, from (Spots)wood) + -ia.
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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