Windham
"windham" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Windham” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #40,519. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,519
- frequency rank, English
- 12,113
- “W” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A surname.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Windham |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #40,519 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Windham” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Windham, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #40,519 among 12,113 “W” headwords. Wiktionary lists 8 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Windham, with forms such as "iwndham", "widnham", and "windahm". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Wyndham", "Wickham", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Wymondham, from personal name Wigmund's + hām (“home”). The correct English form is Windham, spelled W-I-N-D-H-A-M.
Definition
- 1A surname.
- 2A town in Windham County, Connecticut, United States.
- 3An unincorporated community in Johnson County, Iowa, United States.
- 4A town in Cumberland County, Maine, United States.
- 5A town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States.
- 6A town, hamlet, and census-designated place in Greene County, New York, United States.
- 7A village in Portage County, Ohio, United States.
- 8A town in Windham County, Vermont, United States.
Etymology
From Wymondham, from personal name Wigmund's + hām (“home”).
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: iwndham,widnham,windahm,winddham,windhamm,windhham,windhma,winhdam,winndham,wnidham,wwindham
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Windham - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 “Windham”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is W-I-N-D-H-A-M - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “Wyndham” - see the side-by-side comparison. Windham vs Wyndham
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Same frequency band
Data Source
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.