Workington
/ˈwɜː(ɹ)kɪŋtən/
"workington" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Workington” is uncommon English (frequency #90,074 among 12,113 “W” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,074
- frequency rank, English
- 12,113
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A coastal town and civil parish with a town council in Cumberland district, Cumbria, England, previously in Allerdale borough, and historically in the county of Cumberland (OS grid ref NX9928, NY00...
Corpus desk
Index EN-workington · Workington · English
Workington · rank #90,074 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,074
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 12,113
- PHOTO-FINISH woll
Nearest frequency peer: woll (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Workington”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- wingback
wingback
9,932 corpus weight
- Wolford
Wolford
9,929 corpus weight
- woll
woll
9,928 corpus weight
- Workington
Workington
9,927 corpus weight
- worktop
worktop
9,926 corpus weight
- worming
worming
9,925 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Workington” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Workington |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈwɜː(ɹ)kɪŋtən/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #90,074 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Workington” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Workington is uncommon English at frequency #90,074 among 12,113 “W” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈwɜː(ɹ)kɪŋtən/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A coastal town and civil parish with a town council in Cumberland district, Cumbria, England, previously in Allerdale borough, and historically in the county of Cumberland (OS grid ref NX9928, NY00...".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Workington, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is Workington, spelled W-O-R-K-I-N-G-T-O-N.
Definition
- 1A coastal town and civil parish with a town council in Cumberland district, Cumbria, England, previously in Allerdale borough, and historically in the county of Cumberland (OS grid ref NX9928, NY0028).
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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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.