Grisham
"grisham" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Grisham” is uncommon English (frequency #50,544 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,544
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname.
Corpus desk
Index EN-grisham · Grisham · English
Grisham · rank #50,544 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,544
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH grenadier
Nearest frequency peer: grenadier (-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 “Grisham”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Gravesend
Gravesend
49,459 corpus weight
- grenadier
grenadier
49,458 corpus weight
- Grisham
Grisham
49,457 corpus weight
- Grosjean
Grosjean
49,456 corpus weight
- grouper
grouper
49,455 corpus weight
- Gustavus
Gustavus
49,454 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Grisham” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Grisham |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #50,544 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Grisham” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Grisham is uncommon English at frequency #50,544 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname.".
Grisham has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is Grisham, spelled G-R-I-S-H-A-M.
Definition
- 1A surname.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Grisham appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).