Brendan
"brendan" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Brendan” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #11,347. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,347
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A male given name from Irish.
Corpus desk
Index EN-brendan · Brendan · English
Brendan · rank #11,347 · 11 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,347
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH blaze
Nearest frequency peer: blaze (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “Brendan”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- beads
beads
88,657 corpus weight
- beverage
beverage
88,656 corpus weight
- blaze
blaze
88,655 corpus weight
- Brendan
Brendan
88,654 corpus weight
- Brent
Brent
88,653 corpus weight
- broadband
broadband
88,652 corpus weight
What this shows “Brendan” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Brendan |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #11,347 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Brendan”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Brendan, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #11,347 among 4,121 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A male given name from Irish.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Brendan, with forms such as "bbrendan", "berndan", and "brednan". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Brennan", "Brenda", "Brandon", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: Anglicized form of the name of Irish saints, Irish Bréanainn (via Latin Brendanus), from Old Irish Brénainn, from Old Welsh breenhin (“prince, king”), ultimately from Proto-Celtic *brigantīnos (“(someone) preeminent, outstanding”), a diminutive of *brigantī… The correct English form is Brendan, spelled B-R-E-N-D-A-N.
Definition
- 1A male given name from Irish.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Brendan appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
That’s what prompted new FCC Chairman Brendan Carr to send a “letter of inquiry” to CBS, asking the network to hand over the unedited tapes and transcript.
Etymology
Anglicized form of the name of Irish saints, Irish Bréanainn (via Latin Brendanus), from Old Irish Brénainn, from Old Welsh breenhin (“prince, king”), ultimately from Proto-Celtic *brigantīnos (“(someone) preeminent, outstanding”), a diminutive of *brigantī (“high, exalted”). Doublet of Brian.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbrendan
- berndan
- brednan
- brenadn
- brendann
- brenddan
- brendna
- brenndan
- brnedan
- brrendan
- rbendan
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Brendan - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).