McCluskey
"mccluskey" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“McCluskey” has 13 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #49,484. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,484
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname from Irish.
Corpus desk
Index EN-mccluskey · McCluskey · English
McCluskey · rank #49,484 · 13 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,484
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH maxillary
Nearest frequency peer: maxillary (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “McCluskey”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Marne
Marne
50,521 corpus weight
- maxillary
maxillary
50,518 corpus weight
- McCluskey
McCluskey
50,517 corpus weight
- McMullen
McMullen
50,516 corpus weight
- meiosis
meiosis
50,515 corpus weight
- mela
mela
50,514 corpus weight
What this shows “McCluskey” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | McCluskey |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #49,484 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “McCluskey”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around McCluskey, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #49,484 among 4,057 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A surname from Irish.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for McCluskey, with forms such as "cmcluskey", "mcclluskey", and "mcclsukey". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: See McCloskey. The correct English form is McCluskey, spelled M-C-C-L-U-S-K-E-Y.
Definition
- 1A surname from Irish.
Etymology
See McCloskey.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cmcluskey
- mcclluskey
- mcclsukey
- mccluksey
- mccluseky
- mccluskeyy
- mccluskkey
- mccluskye
- mcclusskey
- mcculskey
- mclcuskey
- mcluskey
- mmccluskey
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of McCluskey - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "McCluskey", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).