Hammersley
"hammersley" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Hammersley” is uncommon English (frequency #84,337 among 2,646 “H” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,337
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname from Old English.
Corpus desk
Index EN-hammersley · Hammersley · English
Hammersley · rank #84,337 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,337
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH Haridwar
Nearest frequency peer: Haridwar (+1 rank slots)
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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 “Hammersley”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
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What this shows Bars show where “Hammersley” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Hammersley |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #84,337 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Hammersley” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Hammersley is uncommon English at frequency #84,337 among 2,646 “H” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname from Old English.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Hammersley, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Habitational surname from a lost place believed to have been in Staffordshire, perhaps from an Old English personal name *Hamela + -s- + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”). The correct English form is Hammersley, spelled H-A-M-M-E-R-S-L-E-Y.
Definition
- 1A surname from Old English.
Etymology
Habitational surname from a lost place believed to have been in Staffordshire, perhaps from an Old English personal name *Hamela + -s- + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”).
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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