McGoldrick
"mcgoldrick" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“McGoldrick” is uncommon English (frequency #84,498 among 36,575 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,498
- frequency rank, English
- 36,575
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A surname from Irish.
Corpus desk
Index EN-mcgoldrick · McGoldrick · English
McGoldrick · rank #84,498 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,498
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 36,575
- PHOTO-FINISH McCarter
Nearest frequency peer: McCarter (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “McGoldrick”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- marriageable
marriageable
15,509 corpus weight
- McCarter
McCarter
15,504 corpus weight
- McGoldrick
McGoldrick
15,503 corpus weight
- McKernan
McKernan
15,502 corpus weight
- McQuade
McQuade
15,501 corpus weight
- Megara
Megara
15,498 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “McGoldrick” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | McGoldrick |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #84,498 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “McGoldrick” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
McGoldrick is uncommon English at frequency #84,498 among 36,575 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname from Irish.".
McGoldrick doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: Anglicized form of Irish Mac Ualghairg (“son of Ualgharg”), a personal name composed of the elements úall (“vanity, pride”) + garg (“fierce”) (from Old Irish garg, from Proto-Celtic *gargos (“rough”)). The correct English form is McGoldrick, spelled M-C-G-O-L-D-R-I-C-K.
Definition
- 1A surname from Irish.
Etymology
Anglicized form of Irish Mac Ualghairg (“son of Ualgharg”), a personal name composed of the elements úall (“vanity, pride”) + garg (“fierce”) (from Old Irish garg, from Proto-Celtic *gargos (“rough”)).
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.