Cullinan
"cullinan" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Cullinan” is uncommon English (frequency #75,773 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,773
- 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-cullinan · Cullinan · English
Cullinan · rank #75,773 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,773
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH cultic
Nearest frequency peer: cultic (+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 “Cullinan”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- courgette
courgette
24,234 corpus weight
- Cullinan
Cullinan
24,228 corpus weight
- cultic
cultic
24,227 corpus weight
- curcumin
curcumin
24,226 corpus weight
- cyclically
cyclically
24,223 corpus weight
- cystitis
cystitis
24,222 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Cullinan” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Cullinan |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #75,773 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Cullinan” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Cullinan is uncommon English at frequency #75,773 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname from Irish.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Cullinan in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Cuilleannáin (“descendant of Cuilleannán”), a personal name deriving from a diminutive form of cuileann (“holly”). The correct English form is Cullinan, spelled C-U-L-L-I-N-A-N.
Definition
- 1A surname from Irish.
Etymology
Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Cuilleannáin (“descendant of Cuilleannán”), a personal name deriving from a diminutive form of cuileann (“holly”).
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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