Ahern
"ahern" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Ahern” is uncommon English (frequency #57,207 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,207
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname from Irish.
Corpus desk
Index EN-ahern · Ahern · English
Ahern · rank #57,207 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,207
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH agronomy
Nearest frequency peer: agronomy (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “Ahern”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- afflict
afflict
42,797 corpus weight
- agee
agee
42,796 corpus weight
- agronomy
agronomy
42,795 corpus weight
- Ahern
Ahern
42,794 corpus weight
- Alexandrian
Alexandrian
42,792 corpus weight
- alhaji
alhaji
42,791 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Ahern” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ahern |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #57,207 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Ahern” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Ahern is uncommon English at frequency #57,207 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname from Irish.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Ahern in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: Anglicized form of Irish Ó hEachthighearna (“descendant of Eachthighearna”), a personal name composed by the elements each (“horse”) + tighearna (“master, lord”). The correct English form is Ahern, spelled A-H-E-R-N.
Definition
- 1A surname from Irish.
Etymology
Anglicized form of Irish Ó hEachthighearna (“descendant of Eachthighearna”), a personal name composed by the elements each (“horse”) + tighearna (“master, lord”).
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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