Aroostook
"aroostook" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Aroostook” is uncommon English (frequency #82,056 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,056
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A member of a tribe of the Mi'kmaq Native American people of Aroostook County, Maine.
Corpus desk
Index EN-aroostook · Aroostook · English
Aroostook · rank #82,056 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,056
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH aromatase
Nearest frequency peer: aromatase (-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 “Aroostook”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Aranda
Aranda
17,948 corpus weight
- aromatase
aromatase
17,946 corpus weight
- Aroostook
Aroostook
17,945 corpus weight
- Ashurst
Ashurst
17,942 corpus weight
- assessee
assessee
17,941 corpus weight
- Atholl
Atholl
17,939 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Aroostook” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Aroostook |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #82,056 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Aroostook” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Aroostook is uncommon English at frequency #82,056 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A member of a tribe of the Mi'kmaq Native American people of Aroostook County, Maine.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Aroostook, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Malecite-Passamaquoddy Wool-ahs-took (“good river for everything”). The correct English form is Aroostook, spelled A-R-O-O-S-T-O-O-K.
Definition
- 1A member of a tribe of the Mi'kmaq Native American people of Aroostook County, Maine.
Etymology
From Malecite-Passamaquoddy Wool-ahs-took (“good river for everything”).
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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