Megiddo
/məˈɡɪdəʊ/
"megiddo" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Megiddo” is uncommon English (frequency #87,547 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,547
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mount Megiddo, site of an ancient city in northern Israel's Jezreel valley
Corpus desk
Index EN-megiddo · Megiddo · English
Megiddo · rank #87,547 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,547
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH mehndi
Nearest frequency peer: mehndi (+1 rank slots)
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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 “Megiddo”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- McMuffin
McMuffin
12,458 corpus weight
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McRoberts
12,457 corpus weight
- meadowlark
meadowlark
12,456 corpus weight
- Megiddo
Megiddo
12,454 corpus weight
- mehndi
mehndi
12,453 corpus weight
- melodically
melodically
12,451 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Megiddo” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Megiddo |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /məˈɡɪdəʊ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #87,547 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Megiddo” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Megiddo is uncommon English at frequency #87,547 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /məˈɡɪdəʊ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Mount Megiddo, site of an ancient city in northern Israel's Jezreel valley".
Megiddo has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Hebrew מגידו. The correct English form is Megiddo, spelled M-E-G-I-D-D-O.
Definition
- 1Mount Megiddo, site of an ancient city in northern Israel's Jezreel valley
Etymology
From Hebrew מגידו.
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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