Wilmslow
/ˈwɪlmsləʊ/
"wilmslow" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Wilmslow” is uncommon English (frequency #71,224 among 12,113 “W” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,224
- frequency rank, English
- 12,113
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A town and civil parish with a town council in Cheshire East borough, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ8481).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Wilmslow |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈwɪlmsləʊ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #71,224 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Wilmslow” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Wilmslow is uncommon English at frequency #71,224 among 12,113 “W” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈwɪlmsləʊ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A town and civil parish with a town council in Cheshire East borough, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ8481).".
No misspelling variants are generated for Wilmslow in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is Wilmslow, spelled W-I-L-M-S-L-O-W.
Definition
- 1A town and civil parish with a town council in Cheshire East borough, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ8481).
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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Using “Wilmslow”
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- The one correct English spelling is W-I-L-M-S-L-O-W - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈwɪlmsləʊ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.