Luttrell
"luttrell" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Luttrell” is uncommon English (frequency #56,884 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,884
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname from Old French.
Corpus desk
Index EN-luttrell · Luttrell · English
Luttrell · rank #56,884 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,884
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH Lurie
Nearest frequency peer: Lurie (-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 “Luttrell”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- loyally
loyally
43,121 corpus weight
- lulz
lulz
43,119 corpus weight
- Lurie
Lurie
43,118 corpus weight
- Luttrell
Luttrell
43,117 corpus weight
- Lyles
Lyles
43,115 corpus weight
- Macarena
Macarena
43,113 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Luttrell” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Luttrell |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #56,884 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Luttrell” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Luttrell is uncommon English at frequency #56,884 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname from Old French.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Luttrell, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From a diminutive of Old French loutre (“otter”), either a nickname for someone thought to resemble this animal, or a metonymic occupational surname for someone who hunted otters for their pelts. The correct English form is Luttrell, spelled L-U-T-T-R-E-L-L.
Definition
- 1A surname from Old French.
Etymology
From a diminutive of Old French loutre (“otter”), either a nickname for someone thought to resemble this animal, or a metonymic occupational surname for someone who hunted otters for their pelts.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).