Wokingham
"wokingham" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Wokingham” is uncommon English (frequency #80,124 among 12,113 “W” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,124
- frequency rank, English
- 12,113
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A market town and civil parish with a town council in Berkshire, England (OS grid ref SU8168).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Wokingham |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #80,124 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Wokingham” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Wokingham is uncommon English at frequency #80,124 among 12,113 “W” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for Wokingham in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Meaning "home of the people of Wocca", apparently a Saxon chieftain. In Victorian times, it was known as Oakingham, and the acorn with oak leaves is the town's symbol. The correct English form is Wokingham, spelled W-O-K-I-N-G-H-A-M.
Definition
- 1A market town and civil parish with a town council in Berkshire, England (OS grid ref SU8168).
- 2A unitary authority and borough of Berkshire, with its headquarters in the town of Wokingham.
Etymology
Meaning "home of the people of Wocca", apparently a Saxon chieftain. In Victorian times, it was known as Oakingham, and the acorn with oak leaves is the town's symbol.
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 “Wokingham”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is W-O-K-I-N-G-H-A-M - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.