Ashmolean
"ashmolean" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Ashmolean” is an uncommon English word, ranked #86,029 in English word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #86,029
- frequency rank, English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Of or pertaining to Elias Ashmole.
| 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) |
Where “Ashmolean” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for Ashmolean is 9 letters long, classified as an adjective. Corpus data places it at rank #86,029 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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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Using “Ashmolean”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is A-S-H-M-O-L-E-A-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.