Lurgan
"lurgan" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Lurgan” is uncommon English (frequency #79,721 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,721
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A town in north-east County Armagh, Northern Ireland (Irish grid ref J 0858).
Corpus desk
Index EN-lurgan · Lurgan · English
Lurgan · rank #79,721 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,721
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH LXX
Nearest frequency peer: LXX (+1 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 “Lurgan”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- looseness
looseness
20,285 corpus weight
- lowen
lowen
20,283 corpus weight
- Lurgan
Lurgan
20,280 corpus weight
- LXX
LXX
20,279 corpus weight
- Lynnwood
Lynnwood
20,277 corpus weight
- magnon
magnon
20,276 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Lurgan” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lurgan |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #79,721 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Lurgan” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Lurgan is uncommon English at frequency #79,721 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A town in north-east County Armagh, Northern Ireland (Irish grid ref J 0858).".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Lurgan, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Irish Lorgain. The correct English form is Lurgan, spelled L-U-R-G-A-N.
Definition
- 1A town in north-east County Armagh, Northern Ireland (Irish grid ref J 0858).
Etymology
From Irish Lorgain.
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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