Guptill
"guptill" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Guptill” is uncommon English (frequency #81,378 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,378
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname.
Corpus desk
Index EN-guptill · Guptill · English
Guptill · rank #81,378 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,378
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH Greyson
Nearest frequency peer: Greyson (-2 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 “Guptill”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- granulation
granulation
18,629 corpus weight
- gratefulness
gratefulness
18,627 corpus weight
- gravitation…
gravitationally
18,626 corpus weight
- Greyson
Greyson
18,625 corpus weight
- Guptill
Guptill
18,623 corpus weight
- guttering
guttering
18,621 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Guptill” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Guptill |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #81,378 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Guptill” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Guptill is uncommon English at frequency #81,378 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Guptill in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: Scottish in origin, now found most in New Zealand and the United States. Altered form of Gubtail. Meaning "fox" according to some naming dictionaries. Variants include Gubtel, Guptail, Guptel, Guptell, Guptil. The correct English form is Guptill, spelled G-U-P-T-I-L-L.
Definition
- 1A surname.
Etymology
Scottish in origin, now found most in New Zealand and the United States. Altered form of Gubtail. Meaning "fox" according to some naming dictionaries. Variants include Gubtel, Guptail, Guptel, Guptell, Guptil.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).