Magog
"magog" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Magog” is uncommon English (frequency #63,779 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,779
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The second of the seven sons of Japheth.
Corpus desk
Index EN-magog · Magog · English
Magog · rank #63,779 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,779
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH magmatic
Nearest frequency peer: magmatic (-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 “Magog”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- maggiore
maggiore
36,225 corpus weight
- magmatic
magmatic
36,223 corpus weight
- Magog
Magog
36,222 corpus weight
- Malang
Malang
36,221 corpus weight
- manhunter
manhunter
36,219 corpus weight
- mapper
mapper
36,218 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Magog” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Magog |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #63,779 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Magog” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Magog is uncommon English at frequency #63,779 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The second of the seven sons of Japheth.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Magog in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Biblical Hebrew מָגוֹג (māḡôḡ). The correct English form is Magog, spelled M-A-G-O-G.
Definition
- 1The second of the seven sons of Japheth.
Etymology
From Biblical Hebrew מָגוֹג (māḡôḡ).
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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