Stavanger
/stæˈvæŋə/
"stavanger" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Stavanger” is uncommon English (frequency #61,832 among 54,294 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,832
- frequency rank, English
- 54,294
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A city and municipality in Rogaland, Norway. It is the third largest city in Norway after Oslo and Bergen.
Corpus desk
Index EN-stavanger · Stavanger · English
Stavanger · rank #61,832 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,832
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 54,294
- PHOTO-FINISH stateroom
Nearest frequency peer: stateroom (-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 “Stavanger”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- spiffy
spiffy
38,174 corpus weight
- stateroom
stateroom
38,170 corpus weight
- Stavanger
Stavanger
38,169 corpus weight
- STB
STB
38,168 corpus weight
- steeping
steeping
38,167 corpus weight
- stilt
stilt
38,165 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Stavanger” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Stavanger |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /stæˈvæŋə/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #61,832 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Stavanger” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Stavanger is uncommon English at frequency #61,832 among 54,294 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /stæˈvæŋə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A city and municipality in Rogaland, Norway. It is the third largest city in Norway after Oslo and Bergen.".
Stavanger doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Norwegian Stavanger, from Old Norse Stafangr (literally “staff bay”). The correct English form is Stavanger, spelled S-T-A-V-A-N-G-E-R.
Definition
- 1A city and municipality in Rogaland, Norway. It is the third largest city in Norway after Oslo and Bergen.
Etymology
From Norwegian Stavanger, from Old Norse Stafangr (literally “staff bay”).
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.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 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.