McDiarmid
"mcdiarmid" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“McDiarmid” is uncommon English (frequency #79,744 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,744
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname from Irish.
Corpus desk
Index EN-mcdiarmid · McDiarmid · English
McDiarmid · rank #79,744 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,744
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH McCallister
Nearest frequency peer: McCallister (-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 “McDiarmid”
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 “McDiarmid” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | McDiarmid |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #79,744 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “McDiarmid” in English
Rare enough to double-check
McDiarmid is uncommon English at frequency #79,744 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname from Irish.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for McDiarmid, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Anglicized form of Irish Mac Diarmaid (“son of Diarmaid”). The correct English form is McDiarmid, spelled M-C-D-I-A-R-M-I-D.
Definition
- 1A surname from Irish.
Etymology
Anglicized form of Irish Mac Diarmaid (“son of Diarmaid”).
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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).