Cahill
/ˈkɑːhɪl/
"cahill" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Cahill” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #22,919. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,919
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname from Irish.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cahill · Cahill · English
Cahill · rank #22,919 · 7 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,919
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH BYU
Nearest frequency peer: BYU (-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 “Cahill”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Bums
Bums
77,086 corpus weight
- Burnham
Burnham
77,084 corpus weight
- BYU
BYU
77,083 corpus weight
- Cahill
Cahill
77,082 corpus weight
- carp
carp
77,081 corpus weight
- castor
castor
77,080 corpus weight
What this shows “Cahill” 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 | Cahill |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈkɑːhɪl/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #22,919 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Cahill”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Cahill (IPA /ˈkɑːhɪl/), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #22,919 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A surname from Irish.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Cahill, with forms such as "achill", "cahhill", and "cahil". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "call", "child", "chill", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: Anglicized from Irish Ó Cathail. The correct English form is Cahill, spelled C-A-H-I-L-L.
Definition
- 1A surname from Irish.
Etymology
Anglicized from Irish Ó Cathail.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- achill
- cahhill
- cahil
- cahlil
- caihll
- ccahill
- chaill
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Cahill - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).