Wilmette
"wilmette" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Wilmette” is uncommon English (frequency #86,952 among 1,759 “W” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,952
- frequency rank, English
- 1,759
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A village in New Trier Township, Cook County, Illinois, United States.
Corpus desk
Index EN-wilmette · Wilmette · English
Wilmette · rank #86,952 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,952
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,759
- PHOTO-FINISH widebody
Nearest frequency peer: widebody (-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 “Wilmette”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Wethersfield
Wethersfield
13,058 corpus weight
- widebody
widebody
13,050 corpus weight
- Wilmette
Wilmette
13,049 corpus weight
- Wishaw
Wishaw
13,048 corpus weight
- WMF
WMF
13,046 corpus weight
- wog
wog
13,045 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Wilmette” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Wilmette |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #86,952 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Wilmette” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Wilmette is uncommon English at frequency #86,952 among 1,759 “W” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A village in New Trier Township, Cook County, Illinois, United States.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Wilmette, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: Named after Archange and Antoine Ouilmette, thus the spelling of Wilmette is phonetic. The correct English form is Wilmette, spelled W-I-L-M-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1A village in New Trier Township, Cook County, Illinois, United States.
Etymology
Named after Archange and Antoine Ouilmette, thus the spelling of Wilmette is phonetic.
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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