Arps
"arps" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Arps” is uncommon English (frequency #97,802 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,802
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname from German.
Corpus desk
Index EN-arps · Arps · English
Arps · rank #97,802 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,802
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH aridity
Nearest frequency peer: aridity (-2 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 “Arps”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- aridity
aridity
2,201 corpus weight
- Arps
Arps
2,199 corpus weight
- ASBO
ASBO
2,197 corpus weight
- asea
asea
2,195 corpus weight
- Asem
Asem
2,194 corpus weight
- Aspinwall
Aspinwall
2,193 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Arps” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Arps |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #97,802 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Arps” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Arps is uncommon English at frequency #97,802 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname from German.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Arps, 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 tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from German Arps. The correct English form is Arps, spelled A-R-P-S.
Definition
- 1A surname from German.
Etymology
Borrowed from German Arps.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).