Welshpool
/wɛlʃˈpuːl/
"welshpool" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Welshpool” is uncommon English (frequency #76,462 among 1,759 “W” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,462
- frequency rank, English
- 1,759
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A town and community with a town council in Powys, Wales, in the historic county of Montgomeryshire (OS grid ref SJ2207).
Corpus desk
Index EN-welshpool · Welshpool · English
Welshpool · rank #76,462 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,462
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,759
- PHOTO-FINISH Weinstock
Nearest frequency peer: Weinstock (-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 “Welshpool”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Volterra
Volterra
23,548 corpus weight
- Watney
Watney
23,543 corpus weight
- Weinstock
Weinstock
23,540 corpus weight
- Welshpool
Welshpool
23,539 corpus weight
- whiles
whiles
23,536 corpus weight
- wildling
wildling
23,532 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Welshpool” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Welshpool |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /wɛlʃˈpuːl/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #76,462 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Welshpool” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Welshpool is uncommon English at frequency #76,462 among 1,759 “W” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /wɛlʃˈpuːl/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Welshpool has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Welsh + Pool; it was originally known as Pool, but the name was changed in 1835 to distinguish it from the English town of Poole. The correct English form is Welshpool, spelled W-E-L-S-H-P-O-O-L.
Definition
- 1A town and community with a town council in Powys, Wales, in the historic county of Montgomeryshire (OS grid ref SJ2207).
- 2A town in South Gippsland Shire, south eastern Victoria, Australia.
Etymology
From Welsh + Pool; it was originally known as Pool, but the name was changed in 1835 to distinguish it from the English town of Poole.
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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