Witham
"witham" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Witham” is uncommon English (frequency #70,408 among 1,759 “W” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,408
- frequency rank, English
- 1,759
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A town and civil parish with a town council in Braintree district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TL8214).
Corpus desk
Index EN-witham · Witham · English
Witham · rank #70,408 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,408
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,759
- PHOTO-FINISH wingless
Nearest frequency peer: wingless (-2 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 “Witham”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- wheelwright
wheelwright
29,602 corpus weight
- wicking
wicking
29,599 corpus weight
- wif
wif
29,598 corpus weight
- wingless
wingless
29,595 corpus weight
- Witham
Witham
29,593 corpus weight
- Wotton
Wotton
29,590 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Witham” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Witham |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #70,408 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Witham” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Witham is uncommon English at frequency #70,408 among 1,759 “W” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Witham doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From *wiht (“bend”) + hām (“homestead”). The correct English form is Witham, spelled W-I-T-H-A-M.
Definition
- 1A town and civil parish with a town council in Braintree district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TL8214).
- 2A river, the River Witham in Lincolnshire, England.
- 3A habitational surname from Old English.
Etymology
From *wiht (“bend”) + hām (“homestead”).
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).