Magnuson
"magnuson" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Magnuson” is uncommon English (frequency #65,283 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,283
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname.
Corpus desk
Index EN-magnuson · Magnuson · English
Magnuson · rank #65,283 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,283
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH maladaptive
Nearest frequency peer: maladaptive (+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 “Magnuson”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Lucero
Lucero
34,724 corpus weight
- Lufkin
Lufkin
34,723 corpus weight
- lymphocytic
lymphocytic
34,722 corpus weight
- Magnuson
Magnuson
34,718 corpus weight
- maladaptive
maladaptive
34,717 corpus weight
- mancha
mancha
34,715 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Magnuson” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Magnuson |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #65,283 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Magnuson” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Magnuson is uncommon English at frequency #65,283 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Magnuson, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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 the North Germanic/Scandinavian surname, from Swedish Magnusson, Danish and Norwegian Magnussen, all from Old Norse Magnusen, a patronym meaning "son of Magnus," from Latin Magnus, from magnus (“great”). The correct English form is Magnuson, spelled M-A-G-N-U-S-O-N.
Definition
- 1A surname.
- 2A Scandinavian surname, equivalent to English Manson.
Etymology
From the North Germanic/Scandinavian surname, from Swedish Magnusson, Danish and Norwegian Magnussen, all from Old Norse Magnusen, a patronym meaning "son of Magnus," from Latin Magnus, from magnus (“great”).
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).