townsite
"townsite" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“townsite” is uncommon English (frequency #91,077 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,077
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - In former British colonies, a tract of land authorized to be developed as a town and then surveyed and marked out with streets.
Corpus desk
Index EN-townsite · townsite · English
townsite · rank #91,077 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,077
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH torta
Nearest frequency peer: torta (-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 “townsite”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Tlingit
Tlingit
8,929 corpus weight
- TME
TME
8,927 corpus weight
- tolerably
tolerably
8,926 corpus weight
- torta
torta
8,925 corpus weight
- townsite
townsite
8,924 corpus weight
- toymaker
toymaker
8,922 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “townsite” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | townsite |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #91,077 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “townsite” in English
Rare enough to double-check
townsite is uncommon English at frequency #91,077 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "In former British colonies, a tract of land authorized to be developed as a town and then surveyed and marked out with streets.".
No misspelling variants are generated for townsite in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From town + site. The correct English form is townsite, spelled T-O-W-N-S-I-T-E.
Definition
- 1In former British colonies, a tract of land authorized to be developed as a town and then surveyed and marked out with streets.
Etymology
From town + site.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).