Tenby
"tenby" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Tenby” is uncommon English (frequency #75,482 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,482
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A coastal town and community with a town council in Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SN1300).
Corpus desk
Index EN-tenby · Tenby · English
Tenby · rank #75,482 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,482
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH tempeh
Nearest frequency peer: tempeh (-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 “Tenby”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- teleporter
teleporter
24,523 corpus weight
- tellingly
tellingly
24,521 corpus weight
- tempeh
tempeh
24,520 corpus weight
- Tenby
Tenby
24,519 corpus weight
- terahertz
terahertz
24,516 corpus weight
- terroir
terroir
24,515 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Tenby” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tenby |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #75,482 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Tenby” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Tenby is uncommon English at frequency #75,482 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A coastal town and community with a town council in Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SN1300).".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Tenby in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Welsh din ("fort") + bych, variant form of bychan (“small”). Doublet of Denbigh. The correct English form is Tenby, spelled T-E-N-B-Y.
Definition
- 1A coastal town and community with a town council in Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SN1300).
Etymology
From Welsh din ("fort") + bych, variant form of bychan (“small”). Doublet of Denbigh.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).