Lonergan
"lonergan" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Lonergan” is uncommon English (frequency #56,252 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,252
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname from Irish.
Corpus desk
Index EN-lonergan · Lonergan · English
Lonergan · rank #56,252 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,252
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH Londoner
Nearest frequency peer: Londoner (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “Lonergan”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- LLB
LLB
43,753 corpus weight
- localisation
localisation
43,752 corpus weight
- Londoner
Londoner
43,750 corpus weight
- Lonergan
Lonergan
43,749 corpus weight
- Longstreet
Longstreet
43,748 corpus weight
- lucidity
lucidity
43,746 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Lonergan” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lonergan |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #56,252 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Lonergan” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Lonergan is uncommon English at frequency #56,252 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname from Irish.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Lonergan 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, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Longargáin (“descendant of Longargán”), a personal name based on lonn (“strong”) + garg (“fierce”) + -án. The correct English form is Lonergan, spelled L-O-N-E-R-G-A-N.
Definition
- 1A surname from Irish.
Etymology
Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Longargáin (“descendant of Longargán”), a personal name based on lonn (“strong”) + garg (“fierce”) + -án.
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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