girlhood
"girlhood" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“girlhood” is uncommon English (frequency #73,225 among 18,276 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,225
- frequency rank, English
- 18,276
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The state or condition of being a girl.
Corpus desk
Index EN-girlhood · girlhood · English
girlhood · rank #73,225 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,225
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 18,276
- PHOTO-FINISH gird
Nearest frequency peer: gird (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “girlhood”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- GFE
GFE
26,780 corpus weight
- Gilliland
Gilliland
26,778 corpus weight
- gird
gird
26,777 corpus weight
- girlhood
girlhood
26,776 corpus weight
- gluttonous
gluttonous
26,774 corpus weight
- GMG
GMG
26,773 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “girlhood” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | girlhood |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #73,225 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “girlhood” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
girlhood is uncommon English at frequency #73,225 among 18,276 “G” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for girlhood, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From girl + -hood. The correct English form is girlhood, spelled G-I-R-L-H-O-O-D.
Definition
- 1The state or condition of being a girl.
- 2The childhood of a girl.
Etymology
From girl + -hood.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "girlhood", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.