Arbogast
"arbogast" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Arbogast” is uncommon English (frequency #92,343 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,343
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname.
Corpus desk
Index EN-arbogast · Arbogast · English
Arbogast · rank #92,343 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,343
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH arche
Nearest frequency peer: arche (+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 “Arbogast”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- anarchistic
anarchistic
7,665 corpus weight
- antiterrori…
antiterrorism
7,662 corpus weight
- Arbogast
Arbogast
7,658 corpus weight
- arche
arche
7,657 corpus weight
- ARPANET
ARPANET
7,654 corpus weight
- Artaxerxes
Artaxerxes
7,653 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Arbogast” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Arbogast |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #92,343 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Arbogast” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Arbogast is uncommon English at frequency #92,343 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Arbogast, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: Southwest German and French surname, of Germanic origin, corresponding to Proto-West Germanic *arbī (“inheritance”) + *gasti (“stranger”). The correct English form is Arbogast, spelled A-R-B-O-G-A-S-T.
Definition
- 1A surname.
Etymology
Southwest German and French surname, of Germanic origin, corresponding to Proto-West Germanic *arbī (“inheritance”) + *gasti (“stranger”).
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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