Guyon
"guyon" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Guyon” is uncommon English (frequency #96,029 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,029
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname from French.
Corpus desk
Index EN-guyon · Guyon · English
Guyon · rank #96,029 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,029
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH Guilbert
Nearest frequency peer: Guilbert (-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 “Guyon”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Goulart
Goulart
3,981 corpus weight
- Guilbert
Guilbert
3,974 corpus weight
- Guyon
Guyon
3,972 corpus weight
- hackable
hackable
3,969 corpus weight
- halftone
halftone
3,967 corpus weight
- halyard
halyard
3,965 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Guyon” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Guyon |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #96,029 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Guyon” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Guyon is uncommon English at frequency #96,029 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname from French.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Guyon in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from French Guyon. The correct English form is Guyon, spelled G-U-Y-O-N.
Definition
- 1A surname from French.
Etymology
Borrowed from French Guyon.
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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).