Langerhans
"langerhans" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Langerhans” is uncommon English (frequency #97,220 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,220
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname from German.
Corpus desk
Index EN-langerhans · Langerhans · English
Langerhans · rank #97,220 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,220
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH Lanyon
Nearest frequency peer: Lanyon (+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 “Langerhans”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Kovacic
Kovacic
2,792 corpus weight
- Kutner
Kutner
2,789 corpus weight
- Kwasi
Kwasi
2,787 corpus weight
- Langerhans
Langerhans
2,781 corpus weight
- Lanyon
Lanyon
2,779 corpus weight
- lawgiver
lawgiver
2,771 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Langerhans” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Langerhans |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #97,220 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Langerhans” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Langerhans is uncommon English at frequency #97,220 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname from German.".
Langerhans doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from German Langerhans. The correct English form is Langerhans, spelled L-A-N-G-E-R-H-A-N-S.
Definition
- 1A surname from German.
Etymology
Borrowed from German Langerhans.
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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