Hagley
/ˈhæɡli/
"hagley" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Hagley” is uncommon English (frequency #97,086 among 23,837 “H” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,086
- frequency rank, English
- 23,837
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A hamlet in Lugwardine parish, Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO5641).
Corpus desk
Index EN-hagley · Hagley · English
Hagley · rank #97,086 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,086
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 23,837
- PHOTO-FINISH gunsmoke
Nearest frequency peer: gunsmoke (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Hagley”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
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2,920 corpus weight
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2,919 corpus weight
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gulfs
2,918 corpus weight
- gunsmoke
gunsmoke
2,917 corpus weight
- Hagley
Hagley
2,915 corpus weight
- Hamiltons
Hamiltons
2,912 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Hagley” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Hagley |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈhæɡli/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #97,086 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Hagley” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Hagley is uncommon English at frequency #97,086 among 23,837 “H” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈhæɡli/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for Hagley in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is Hagley, spelled H-A-G-L-E-Y.
Definition
- 1A hamlet in Lugwardine parish, Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO5641).
- 2A village and civil parish in Bromsgrove district, Worcestershire, England (OS grid ref SO9181).
- 3A town in Meander Valley council area, northern Tasmania, Australia.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.