Gurung
"gurung" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Gurung” is uncommon English (frequency #69,909 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,909
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname.
Corpus desk
Index EN-gurung · Gurung · English
Gurung · rank #69,909 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,909
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH guar
Nearest frequency peer: guar (-3 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 “Gurung”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- gristle
gristle
30,097 corpus weight
- grumps
grumps
30,096 corpus weight
- guar
guar
30,095 corpus weight
- Gurung
Gurung
30,092 corpus weight
- Hammad
Hammad
30,089 corpus weight
- Hanbury
Hanbury
30,087 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Gurung” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Gurung |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #69,909 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Gurung” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Gurung is uncommon English at frequency #69,909 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Gurung in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From the Nepali surname, from the name of the Gurung people of Nepal, गुरुङ (guruṅ), an exonym itself possibly borrowed from Tibetan. The correct English form is Gurung, spelled G-U-R-U-N-G.
Definition
- 1A surname.
Etymology
From the Nepali surname, from the name of the Gurung people of Nepal, गुरुङ (guruṅ), an exonym itself possibly borrowed from Tibetan.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).