Maynooth
/məˈnuːθ/
"maynooth" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Maynooth” is uncommon English (frequency #82,523 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,523
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A town in County Kildare, Ireland, about 22 km west of Dublin city centre: home of Maynooth University and St Patrick’s college.
Corpus desk
Index EN-maynooth · Maynooth · English
Maynooth · rank #82,523 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,523
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH maza
Nearest frequency peer: maza (+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 “Maynooth”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Masoud
Masoud
17,481 corpus weight
- Matera
Matera
17,480 corpus weight
- Maynooth
Maynooth
17,478 corpus weight
- maza
maza
17,477 corpus weight
- mazza
mazza
17,476 corpus weight
- McCaffery
McCaffery
17,475 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Maynooth” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Maynooth |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /məˈnuːθ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #82,523 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Maynooth” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Maynooth is uncommon English at frequency #82,523 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /məˈnuːθ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A town in County Kildare, Ireland, about 22 km west of Dublin city centre: home of Maynooth University and St Patrick’s college.".
Maynooth has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Irish Maigh Nuad (literally “plain of Nuada”). The correct English form is Maynooth, spelled M-A-Y-N-O-O-T-H.
Definition
- 1A town in County Kildare, Ireland, about 22 km west of Dublin city centre: home of Maynooth University and St Patrick’s college.
Etymology
Borrowed from Irish Maigh Nuad (literally “plain of Nuada”).
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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