Walsingham
"walsingham" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Walsingham” is uncommon English (frequency #57,165 among 1,759 “W” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,165
- frequency rank, English
- 1,759
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A civil parish in North Norfolk district, Norfolk, England, which includes Great Walsingham and Little Walsingham (OS grid ref TF9336).
Corpus desk
Index EN-walsingham · Walsingham · English
Walsingham · rank #57,165 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,165
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,759
- PHOTO-FINISH Wahhabi
Nearest frequency peer: Wahhabi (-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 “Walsingham”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- vilify
vilify
42,840 corpus weight
- virility
virility
42,839 corpus weight
- Wahhabi
Wahhabi
42,837 corpus weight
- Walsingham
Walsingham
42,836 corpus weight
- Wasatch
Wasatch
42,833 corpus weight
- Weeden
Weeden
42,832 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Walsingham” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Walsingham |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #57,165 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Walsingham” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Walsingham is uncommon English at frequency #57,165 among 1,759 “W” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Walsingham, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From the Old English personal name Wæls + -ing (“belonging to”) + hām (“homestead”). First element equivalent to Vǫlsungr. The correct English form is Walsingham, spelled W-A-L-S-I-N-G-H-A-M.
Definition
- 1A civil parish in North Norfolk district, Norfolk, England, which includes Great Walsingham and Little Walsingham (OS grid ref TF9336).
- 2A habitational surname from Old English.
Etymology
From the Old English personal name Wæls + -ing (“belonging to”) + hām (“homestead”). First element equivalent to Vǫlsungr.
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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).