McGuinness
"mcguinness" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“McGuinness” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #38,042. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,042
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname from Irish.
Corpus desk
Index EN-mcguinness · McGuinness · English
McGuinness · rank #38,042 · 12 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,042
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH MbS
Nearest frequency peer: MbS (-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 “McGuinness”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Martinique
Martinique
61,962 corpus weight
- Maryam
Maryam
61,961 corpus weight
- MbS
MbS
61,960 corpus weight
- McGuinness
McGuinness
61,959 corpus weight
- McNulty
McNulty
61,958 corpus weight
- mediaeval
mediaeval
61,957 corpus weight
What this shows “McGuinness” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | McGuinness |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #38,042 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “McGuinness”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around McGuinness, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #38,042 among 4,057 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A surname from Irish.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for McGuinness, with forms such as "cmguinness", "mccguinness", and "mcgguinness". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Variant of McGinnis. The correct English form is McGuinness, spelled M-C-G-U-I-N-N-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1A surname from Irish.
Etymology
Variant of McGinnis.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cmguinness
- mccguinness
- mcgguinness
- mcgiunness
- mcguinenss
- mcguiness
- mcguinnes
- mcguinnses
- mcguniness
- mcuginness
- mgcuinness
- mmcguinness
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of McGuinness - 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 "McGuinness", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).