Egmont
/ˈɛɡ.mɑnt/
"egmont" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Egmont” is uncommon English (frequency #69,812 among 2,246 “E” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,812
- frequency rank, English
- 2,246
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A civil parish of Prince County, Prince Edward Island, Canada.
Corpus desk
Index EN-egmont · Egmont · English
Egmont · rank #69,812 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,812
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,246
- PHOTO-FINISH Ekman
Nearest frequency peer: Ekman (+2 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 “Egmont”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Eadie
Eadie
30,195 corpus weight
- earldom
earldom
30,194 corpus weight
- earthwork
earthwork
30,192 corpus weight
- Egmont
Egmont
30,189 corpus weight
- Ekman
Ekman
30,187 corpus weight
- electrocute
electrocute
30,184 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Egmont” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Egmont |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈɛɡ.mɑnt/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #69,812 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Egmont” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Egmont is uncommon English at frequency #69,812 among 2,246 “E” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈɛɡ.mɑnt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A civil parish of Prince County, Prince Edward Island, Canada.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Egmont in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: The parish is named after John Perceval, 2nd Earl of Egmont (1711 - 1770). Coined by British-Dutch surveyor Samuel Holland. The correct English form is Egmont, spelled E-G-M-O-N-T.
Definition
- 1A civil parish of Prince County, Prince Edward Island, Canada.
Etymology
The parish is named after John Perceval, 2nd Earl of Egmont (1711 - 1770). Coined by British-Dutch surveyor Samuel Holland.
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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