Banville
"banville" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Banville” is uncommon English (frequency #93,439 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,439
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname from French.
Corpus desk
Index EN-banville · Banville · English
Banville · rank #93,439 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,439
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH Banquo
Nearest frequency peer: Banquo (-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 “Banville”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- banksia
banksia
6,567 corpus weight
- bankside
bankside
6,566 corpus weight
- banky
banky
6,565 corpus weight
- Banquo
Banquo
6,563 corpus weight
- Banville
Banville
6,562 corpus weight
- barebones
barebones
6,558 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Banville” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Banville |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #93,439 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Banville” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Banville is uncommon English at frequency #93,439 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname from French.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Banville, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: French and Irish surname of Norman origin, from Banville in Calvados, from Old French Baanvillam; the second element is ville (“settlement”) but the first is uncertain, perhaps a personal name of Germanic origin (compare *bannan (“to proclaim”)). This surna… The correct English form is Banville, spelled B-A-N-V-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1A surname from French.
Etymology
French and Irish surname of Norman origin, from Banville in Calvados, from Old French Baanvillam; the second element is ville (“settlement”) but the first is uncertain, perhaps a personal name of Germanic origin (compare *bannan (“to proclaim”)). This surname is mostly found in Canada. Compare Banfield.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).