Araujo
"araujo" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Araujo” is uncommon English (frequency #76,537 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,537
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname from Spanish.
Corpus desk
Index EN-araujo · Araujo · English
Araujo · rank #76,537 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,537
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH Arapaho
Nearest frequency peer: Arapaho (-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 “Araujo”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Appian
Appian
23,467 corpus weight
- Arapaho
Arapaho
23,465 corpus weight
- Araujo
Araujo
23,464 corpus weight
- Arcata
Arcata
23,463 corpus weight
- Arica
Arica
23,462 corpus weight
- armless
armless
23,461 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Araujo” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Araujo |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #76,537 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Araujo” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Araujo is uncommon English at frequency #76,537 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname from Spanish.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Araujo, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Spanish Araújo. Probably from arar (“to plough”), hence ploughland. The correct English form is Araujo, spelled A-R-A-U-J-O.
Definition
- 1A surname from Spanish.
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish Araújo. Probably from arar (“to plough”), hence ploughland.
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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