Stourbridge
/ˈstaʊəbɹɪd͡ʒ/
"stourbridge" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Stourbridge” is uncommon English (frequency #75,452 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,452
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A large town in the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley, West Midlands, England.
Corpus desk
Index EN-stourbridge · Stourbridge · English
Stourbridge · rank #75,452 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,452
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH stour
Nearest frequency peer: stour (-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 “Stourbridge”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Stengel
Stengel
24,553 corpus weight
- stoping
stoping
24,551 corpus weight
- stour
stour
24,550 corpus weight
- Stourbridge
Stourbridge
24,549 corpus weight
- strictness
strictness
24,548 corpus weight
- Sukhoi
Sukhoi
24,545 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Stourbridge” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Stourbridge |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈstaʊəbɹɪd͡ʒ/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #75,452 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Stourbridge” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Stourbridge is uncommon English at frequency #75,452 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈstaʊəbɹɪd͡ʒ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A large town in the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley, West Midlands, England.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Stourbridge in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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 local River Stour + bridge. The correct English form is Stourbridge, spelled S-T-O-U-R-B-R-I-D-G-E.
Definition
- 1A large town in the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley, West Midlands, England.
Etymology
From the local River Stour + bridge.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).