Teddington
/ˈtɛdɪŋtən/
"teddington" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Teddington” is uncommon English (frequency #60,510 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,510
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A suburb of the borough of Richmond upon Thames, in south-west Greater London, historically in Middlesex on the north side of the River Thames (but actually west of it) (OS grid ref TQ1671).
Corpus desk
Index EN-teddington · Teddington · English
Teddington · rank #60,510 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,510
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH thankfulness
Nearest frequency peer: thankfulness (+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 “Teddington”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- swiftness
swiftness
39,498 corpus weight
- syne
syne
39,495 corpus weight
- tala
tala
39,494 corpus weight
- Teddington
Teddington
39,491 corpus weight
- thankfulness
thankfulness
39,489 corpus weight
- thinness
thinness
39,487 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Teddington” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Teddington |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈtɛdɪŋtən/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #60,510 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Teddington” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Teddington is uncommon English at frequency #60,510 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈtɛdɪŋtən/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Teddington has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is Teddington, spelled T-E-D-D-I-N-G-T-O-N.
Definition
- 1A suburb of the borough of Richmond upon Thames, in south-west Greater London, historically in Middlesex on the north side of the River Thames (but actually west of it) (OS grid ref TQ1671).
- 2A village and civil parish in Tewkesbury district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SO9633).
- 3A small settlement on Lyttelton Harbour, Canterbury, New Zealand.
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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