Willesden
/ˈwɪlzdən/
"willesden" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Willesden” is uncommon English (frequency #81,981 among 1,759 “W” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,981
- frequency rank, English
- 1,759
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A suburban area in the borough of Brent, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ2284).
Corpus desk
Index EN-willesden · Willesden · English
Willesden · rank #81,981 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,981
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,759
- PHOTO-FINISH Wigner
Nearest frequency peer: Wigner (-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 “Willesden”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Whatley
Whatley
18,024 corpus weight
- Wigner
Wigner
18,021 corpus weight
- Willesden
Willesden
18,020 corpus weight
- winer
winer
18,019 corpus weight
- Winnetka
Winnetka
18,018 corpus weight
- WLW
WLW
18,016 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Willesden” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Willesden |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈwɪlzdən/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #81,981 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Willesden” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Willesden is uncommon English at frequency #81,981 among 1,759 “W” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈwɪlzdən/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A suburban area in the borough of Brent, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ2284).".
Willesden doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is Willesden, spelled W-I-L-L-E-S-D-E-N.
Definition
- 1A suburban area in the borough of Brent, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ2284).
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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