Gabbard
/ˈɡæbərd/
"gabbard" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Gabbard” is uncommon English (frequency #60,104 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,104
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname.
Corpus desk
Index EN-gabbard · Gabbard · English
Gabbard · rank #60,104 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,104
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH Gagarin
Nearest frequency peer: Gagarin (+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 “Gabbard”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- foosball
foosball
39,904 corpus weight
- foreshadow
foreshadow
39,902 corpus weight
- Gabbard
Gabbard
39,897 corpus weight
- Gagarin
Gagarin
39,896 corpus weight
- Galahad
Galahad
39,895 corpus weight
- gastroenter…
gastroenteritis
39,890 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Gabbard” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Gabbard |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈɡæbərd/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #60,104 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Gabbard” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Gabbard is uncommon English at frequency #60,104 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈɡæbərd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Gabbard in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is Gabbard, spelled G-A-B-B-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1A surname.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Gabbard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ms. Gabbard, a lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserve who served in Iraq, has been a longtime critic of the foreign policy establishment.
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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