Totnes
/tɒtˈnɛs/
"totnes" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Totnes” is uncommon English (frequency #70,338 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,338
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A market town and civil parish with a town council in South Hams district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX8060).
Corpus desk
Index EN-totnes · Totnes · English
Totnes · rank #70,338 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,338
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH tracery
Nearest frequency peer: tracery (+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 “Totnes”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Tissot
Tissot
29,668 corpus weight
- Totnes
Totnes
29,663 corpus weight
- tracery
tracery
29,662 corpus weight
- Travancore
Travancore
29,660 corpus weight
- triode
triode
29,658 corpus weight
- Troilus
Troilus
29,657 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Totnes” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Totnes |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /tɒtˈnɛs/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #70,338 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Totnes” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Totnes is uncommon English at frequency #70,338 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /tɒtˈnɛs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A market town and civil parish with a town council in South Hams district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX8060).".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Totnes in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is Totnes, spelled T-O-T-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1A market town and civil parish with a town council in South Hams district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX8060).
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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