Gorakhpur
"gorakhpur" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Gorakhpur” is uncommon English (frequency #73,233 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,233
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A city, district, and division of Uttar Pradesh, India.
Corpus desk
Index EN-gorakhpur · Gorakhpur · English
Gorakhpur · rank #73,233 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,233
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH gorgonzola
Nearest frequency peer: gorgonzola (+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 “Gorakhpur”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- GMG
GMG
26,773 corpus weight
- Goldsworthy
Goldsworthy
26,771 corpus weight
- Gorakhpur
Gorakhpur
26,768 corpus weight
- gorgonzola
gorgonzola
26,767 corpus weight
- grappa
grappa
26,765 corpus weight
- grenache
grenache
26,763 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Gorakhpur” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Gorakhpur |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #73,233 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Gorakhpur” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Gorakhpur is uncommon English at frequency #73,233 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A city, district, and division of Uttar Pradesh, India.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Gorakhpur in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Hindi गोरखपुर (gorakhpur). The correct English form is Gorakhpur, spelled G-O-R-A-K-H-P-U-R.
Definition
- 1A city, district, and division of Uttar Pradesh, India.
Etymology
Borrowed from Hindi गोरखपुर (gorakhpur).
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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).