goffin
"goffin" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“goffin” is uncommon English (frequency #62,175 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,175
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative form of coffin (“exploratory trench; deep ditch”).
Corpus desk
Index EN-goffin · goffin · English
goffin · rank #62,175 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,175
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH Gnosticism
Nearest frequency peer: Gnosticism (-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 “goffin”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Gibby
Gibby
37,829 corpus weight
- glamping
glamping
37,828 corpus weight
- Gnosticism
Gnosticism
37,827 corpus weight
- goffin
goffin
37,826 corpus weight
- gora
gora
37,825 corpus weight
- granularity
granularity
37,823 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “goffin” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | goffin |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #62,175 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “goffin” in English
Rare enough to double-check
goffin is uncommon English at frequency #62,175 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative form of coffin (“exploratory trench; deep ditch”).".
goffin doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Cornish goghyn, the soft mutation of koghyn (“exploratory trench”). The correct English form is goffin, spelled G-O-F-F-I-N.
Definition
- 1Alternative form of coffin (“exploratory trench; deep ditch”).
Etymology
Borrowed from Cornish goghyn, the soft mutation of koghyn (“exploratory trench”).
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).