McCallister
/məˈkælɪstə/
"mccallister" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“McCallister” is uncommon English (frequency #79,743 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,743
- 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-mccallister · McCallister · English
McCallister · rank #79,743 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,743
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH McDiarmid
Nearest frequency peer: McDiarmid (+1 rank slots)
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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 “McCallister”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Maung
Maung
20,261 corpus weight
- Mauritian
Mauritian
20,260 corpus weight
- McCallister
McCallister
20,258 corpus weight
- McDiarmid
McDiarmid
20,257 corpus weight
- McKibben
McKibben
20,256 corpus weight
- meddlesome
meddlesome
20,254 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “McCallister” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | McCallister |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /məˈkælɪstə/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #79,743 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “McCallister” in English
Rare enough to double-check
McCallister is uncommon English at frequency #79,743 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /məˈkælɪstə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname from Scottish Gaelic.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for McCallister, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: Variant of McAllister. The correct English form is McCallister, spelled M-C-C-A-L-L-I-S-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
Etymology
Variant of McAllister.
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 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).