McAndrew
"mcandrew" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“McAndrew” is uncommon English (frequency #81,554 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,554
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
Corpus desk
Index EN-mcandrew · McAndrew · English
McAndrew · rank #81,554 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,554
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH McCreery
Nearest frequency peer: McCreery (+2 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 “McAndrew”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- McAndrew
McAndrew
18,447 corpus weight
- McCreery
McCreery
18,445 corpus weight
- McCue
McCue
18,444 corpus weight
- McDuffie
McDuffie
18,443 corpus weight
- McIntire
McIntire
18,442 corpus weight
- McKechnie
McKechnie
18,441 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “McAndrew” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | McAndrew |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #81,554 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “McAndrew” in English
Rare enough to double-check
McAndrew is uncommon English at frequency #81,554 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname from Scottish Gaelic.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for McAndrew, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Mac Aindreis (“son of Andrew”). The correct English form is McAndrew, spelled M-C-A-N-D-R-E-W.
Definition
- 1A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
Etymology
Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Mac Aindreis (“son of Andrew”).
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).