Guilfoyle
"guilfoyle" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Guilfoyle” is uncommon English (frequency #82,355 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,355
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname from Irish.
Corpus desk
Index EN-guilfoyle · Guilfoyle · English
Guilfoyle · rank #82,355 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,355
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH Guillen
Nearest frequency peer: Guillen (+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 “Guilfoyle”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- grazer
grazer
17,650 corpus weight
- greaser
greaser
17,649 corpus weight
- Guilfoyle
Guilfoyle
17,646 corpus weight
- Guillen
Guillen
17,645 corpus weight
- gullibility
gullibility
17,644 corpus weight
- gumshoe
gumshoe
17,643 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Guilfoyle” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Guilfoyle |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #82,355 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Guilfoyle” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Guilfoyle is uncommon English at frequency #82,355 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname from Irish.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Guilfoyle, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: Anglicized form of Irish Mac Giolla Phóil (“son of St. Paul's follower”), from mac + giolla + Pól. The correct English form is Guilfoyle, spelled G-U-I-L-F-O-Y-L-E.
Definition
- 1A surname from Irish.
Etymology
Anglicized form of Irish Mac Giolla Phóil (“son of St. Paul's follower”), from mac + giolla + Pól.
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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