McInerney
/ˌmækɪˈnɜː(ɹ)ni/
"mcinerney" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“McInerney” is uncommon English (frequency #70,073 among 36,575 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,073
- frequency rank, English
- 36,575
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A surname from Irish.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | McInerney |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˌmækɪˈnɜː(ɹ)ni/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #70,073 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “McInerney” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
McInerney is uncommon English at frequency #70,073 among 36,575 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˌmækɪˈnɜː(ɹ)ni/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname from Irish.".
McInerney has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: Anglicized form of Irish Mac an Airchinnig (“son of the erenagh”). The correct English form is McInerney, spelled M-C-I-N-E-R-N-E-Y.
Definition
- 1A surname from Irish.
Etymology
Anglicized form of Irish Mac an Airchinnig (“son of the erenagh”).
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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Using “McInerney”
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- The one correct English spelling is M-C-I-N-E-R-N-E-Y - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.