Tavistock
"tavistock" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Tavistock” has 14 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #49,090. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,090
- frequency rank, English
- 27,828
- “T” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A town and civil parish with a town council in West Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX4874).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tavistock |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #49,090 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Tavistock” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around Tavistock, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #49,090 among 27,828 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for Tavistock, with forms such as "atvistock", "taivstock", and "tavisotck". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From its location on the River Tavy + Old English stoc; recorded as Tauistoce in 981 and Tavestoc in 1086 (DB). The correct English form is Tavistock, spelled T-A-V-I-S-T-O-C-K.
Definition
- 1A town and civil parish with a town council in West Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX4874).
- 2A community, formerly a village, in East Zorra-Tavistock township, Ontario, Canada.
- 3An unincorporated community in New Castle County, Delaware, United States.
- 4A minor borough in Camden County, New Jersey, United States.
Etymology
From its location on the River Tavy + Old English stoc; recorded as Tauistoce in 981 and Tavestoc in 1086 (DB).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- atvistock
- taivstock
- tavisotck
- tavisstock
- tavistcok
- tavistocck
- tavistockk
- tavistokc
- tavisttock
- tavitsock
- tavsitock
- tavvistock
- ttavistock
- tvaistock
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Tavistock - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 “Tavistock”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is T-A-V-I-S-T-O-C-K - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.