Conlan
"conlan" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Conlan” is uncommon English (frequency #65,006 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,006
- 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-conlan · Conlan · English
Conlan · rank #65,006 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,006
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH construe
Nearest frequency peer: construe (+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 “Conlan”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- commodifica…
commodification
34,998 corpus weight
- concessional
concessional
34,997 corpus weight
- Conlan
Conlan
34,995 corpus weight
- construe
construe
34,994 corpus weight
- Coombes
Coombes
34,993 corpus weight
- cooter
cooter
34,992 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Conlan” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Conlan |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #65,006 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Conlan” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Conlan is uncommon English at frequency #65,006 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname from Irish.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Conlan in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Conalláin (“descendant of Conallán”), a diminutive of the personal name Conall. The correct English form is Conlan, spelled C-O-N-L-A-N.
Definition
- 1A surname from Irish.
Etymology
Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Conalláin (“descendant of Conallán”), a diminutive of the personal name Conall.
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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