Ashmolean
"ashmolean" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Ashmolean” is uncommon English (frequency #86,029 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,029
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Of or pertaining to Elias Ashmole.
Corpus desk
Index EN-ashmolean · Ashmolean · English
Ashmolean · rank #86,029 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,029
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH asker
Nearest frequency peer: asker (+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 “Ashmolean”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- arroz
arroz
13,976 corpus weight
- ARVN
ARVN
13,975 corpus weight
- Ashmolean
Ashmolean
13,972 corpus weight
- asker
asker
13,970 corpus weight
- Athan
Athan
13,969 corpus weight
- atonal
atonal
13,968 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Ashmolean” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ashmolean |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #86,029 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Ashmolean” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Ashmolean is uncommon English at frequency #86,029 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Of or pertaining to Elias Ashmole.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Ashmolean in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Ashmole + -an, named after English antiquary, politician, astrologer and alchemist Elias Ashmole (1617–1692), whose gift of his cabinet of curiosities became the basis of Oxford University's Ashmolean Museum. The correct English form is Ashmolean, spelled A-S-H-M-O-L-E-A-N.
Definition
- 1Of or pertaining to Elias Ashmole.
Etymology
From Ashmole + -an, named after English antiquary, politician, astrologer and alchemist Elias Ashmole (1617–1692), whose gift of his cabinet of curiosities became the basis of Oxford University's Ashmolean Museum.
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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