Gopalakrishnan
"gopalakrishnan" is a 14-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Gopalakrishnan” is uncommon English (frequency #85,301 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,301
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname from Tamil.
Corpus desk
Index EN-gopalakrishnan · Gopalakrishnan · English
Gopalakrishnan · rank #85,301 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,301
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH Granma
Nearest frequency peer: Granma (+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 “Gopalakrishnan”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- glutamic
glutamic
14,706 corpus weight
- Gopalakrish…
Gopalakrishnan
14,700 corpus weight
- Granma
Granma
14,699 corpus weight
- Greenhalgh
Greenhalgh
14,697 corpus weight
- greenhorn
greenhorn
14,696 corpus weight
- Grint
Grint
14,694 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Gopalakrishnan” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Gopalakrishnan |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #85,301 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Gopalakrishnan” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Gopalakrishnan is uncommon English at frequency #85,301 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname from Tamil.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Gopalakrishnan in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Tamil கோபாலகிருஷ்ண (kōpālakiruṣṇa). The correct English form is Gopalakrishnan, spelled G-O-P-A-L-A-K-R-I-S-H-N-A-N.
Definition
- 1A surname from Tamil.
Etymology
Borrowed from Tamil கோபாலகிருஷ்ண (kōpālakiruṣṇa).
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 14 letters (nearest by frequency rank).