Cagney
"cagney" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Cagney” is uncommon English (frequency #55,984 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,984
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname from Irish.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cagney · Cagney · English
Cagney · rank #55,984 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,984
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH Cagayan
Nearest frequency peer: Cagayan (-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 “Cagney”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Brzezinski
Brzezinski
44,023 corpus weight
- builder's
builder's
44,022 corpus weight
- Cagayan
Cagayan
44,018 corpus weight
- Cagney
Cagney
44,017 corpus weight
- calyx
calyx
44,014 corpus weight
- candelabra
candelabra
44,012 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Cagney” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Cagney |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #55,984 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Cagney” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Cagney is uncommon English at frequency #55,984 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname from Irish.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Cagney, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Caingnigh (“descendant of Caingneach”), a byname from caingneach (“troublesome”). The correct English form is Cagney, spelled C-A-G-N-E-Y.
Definition
- 1A surname from Irish.
Etymology
Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Caingnigh (“descendant of Caingneach”), a byname from caingneach (“troublesome”).
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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