Brigadoon
"brigadoon" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Brigadoon” is uncommon English (frequency #99,057 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,057
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A place that seems magically transient.
Corpus desk
Index EN-brigadoon · Brigadoon · English
Brigadoon · rank #99,057 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,057
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH bridewell
Nearest frequency peer: bridewell (-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 “Brigadoon”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Bosniak
Bosniak
951 corpus weight
- Bostrom
Bostrom
950 corpus weight
- bridewell
bridewell
945 corpus weight
- Brigadoon
Brigadoon
944 corpus weight
- Burren
Burren
937 corpus weight
- Burundian
Burundian
936 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Brigadoon” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Brigadoon |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #99,057 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Brigadoon” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Brigadoon is uncommon English at frequency #99,057 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A place that seems magically transient.".
Brigadoon doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: After the village in the 1947 musical of the same name, written by Alan Jay Lerner. That village appears for only one day every hundred years. The name of the village is taken from the Brig o' Doon mediaeval bridge, in Ayrshire, Scotland. The correct English form is Brigadoon, spelled B-R-I-G-A-D-O-O-N.
Definition
- 1A place that seems magically transient.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Brigadoon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I saw the rain dirty valley / You saw Brigadoon
A mile walk took us into Mountshannon, a sort of Brigadoon, so quiet in the warm sun we thought it deserted.
Etymology
After the village in the 1947 musical of the same name, written by Alan Jay Lerner. That village appears for only one day every hundred years. The name of the village is taken from the Brig o' Doon mediaeval bridge, in Ayrshire, Scotland.
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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