Yorktown
/ˈjɔː(ɹ)ktaʊn/
"yorktown" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Yorktown” has 13 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #38,697. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,697
- frequency rank, English
- 366
- “Y” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A town, the county seat of York County, in southeastern Virginia, United States. It was the site of the final battle of the Revolutionary War.
Corpus desk
Index EN-yorktown · Yorktown · English
Yorktown · rank #38,697 · 13 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,697
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 366
- PHOTO-FINISH Yui
Nearest frequency peer: Yui (+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 “Yorktown”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
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What this shows Bars show where “Yorktown” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Yorktown |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈjɔː(ɹ)ktaʊn/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #38,697 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Yorktown” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around Yorktown (IPA /ˈjɔː(ɹ)ktaʊn/), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #38,697 among 366 “Y” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A town, the county seat of York County, in southeastern Virginia, United States. It was the site of the final battle of the Revolutionary War.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Yorktown, with forms such as "oyrktown", "yokrtown", and "yorkktown". 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. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From York + town, after its county. The correct English form is Yorktown, spelled Y-O-R-K-T-O-W-N.
Definition
- 1A town, the county seat of York County, in southeastern Virginia, United States. It was the site of the final battle of the Revolutionary War.
Etymology
From York + town, after its county.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oyrktown
- yokrtown
- yorkktown
- yorkotwn
- yorktonw
- yorktownn
- yorktowwn
- yorkttown
- yorktwon
- yorrktown
- yortkown
- yroktown
- yyorktown
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Yorktown - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).
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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.