Anglicans
/ˈæŋ.ɡlɪ.kənz/
"anglicans" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Anglicans” is uncommon English (frequency #50,936 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,936
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of Anglican
Corpus desk
Index EN-anglicans · Anglicans · English
Anglicans · rank #50,936 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,936
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH Annapurna
Nearest frequency peer: Annapurna (+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 “Anglicans”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Ambedkar
Ambedkar
49,070 corpus weight
- anachronism
anachronism
49,068 corpus weight
- Anglicans
Anglicans
49,065 corpus weight
- Annapurna
Annapurna
49,064 corpus weight
- appel
appel
49,062 corpus weight
- Artagnan
Artagnan
49,059 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Anglicans” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Anglicans |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈæŋ.ɡlɪ.kənz/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #50,936 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Anglicans” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Anglicans is uncommon English at frequency #50,936 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈæŋ.ɡlɪ.kənz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of Anglican".
Zero misspellings are on record for Anglicans in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is Anglicans, spelled A-N-G-L-I-C-A-N-S.
Definition
- 1plural of Anglican
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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