Moylan
"moylan" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Moylan” is uncommon English (frequency #70,930 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,930
- 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-moylan · Moylan · English
Moylan · rank #70,930 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,930
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH Movember
Nearest frequency peer: Movember (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “Moylan”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- moult
moult
29,074 corpus weight
- mourner
mourner
29,073 corpus weight
- Movember
Movember
29,072 corpus weight
- Moylan
Moylan
29,071 corpus weight
- Muhlenberg
Muhlenberg
29,069 corpus weight
- mulching
mulching
29,067 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Moylan” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Moylan |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #70,930 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Moylan” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Moylan is uncommon English at frequency #70,930 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname from Irish.".
Moylan has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Maoileáin (“descendant of Maoileán”), a diminutive of maol (“bald”). The correct English form is Moylan, spelled M-O-Y-L-A-N.
Definition
- 1A surname from Irish.
Etymology
Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Maoileáin (“descendant of Maoileán”), a diminutive of maol (“bald”).
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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