Yeovil
/ˈjoʊvɪl/
"yeovil" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Yeovil” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #40,979. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,979
- frequency rank, English
- 2,763
- “Y” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A town and civil parish with a town council in Somerset, England, previously in South Somerset district (OS grid ref ST5516).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Yeovil |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈjoʊvɪl/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #40,979 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Yeovil” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Yeovil (IPA /ˈjoʊvɪl/), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #40,979 among 2,763 “Y” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A town and civil parish with a town council in Somerset, England, previously in South Somerset district (OS grid ref ST5516).".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Yeovil, with forms such as "eyovil", "yeoivl", and "yeovill". 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. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is Yeovil, spelled Y-E-O-V-I-L.
Definition
- 1A town and civil parish with a town council in Somerset, England, previously in South Somerset district (OS grid ref ST5516).
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eyovil
- yeoivl
- yeovill
- yeovli
- yeovvil
- yevoil
- yoevil
- yyeovil
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Yeovil - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 “Yeovil”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is Y-E-O-V-I-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈjoʊvɪl/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.