Murugan
"murugan" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Murugan” is uncommon English (frequency #79,776 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,776
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A Hindu deity, especially popular among Tamils, worshipped in areas of South India.
Corpus desk
Index EN-murugan · Murugan · English
Murugan · rank #79,776 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,776
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH murr
Nearest frequency peer: murr (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “Murugan”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- MTD
MTD
20,229 corpus weight
- multidrug
multidrug
20,228 corpus weight
- murr
murr
20,226 corpus weight
- Murugan
Murugan
20,225 corpus weight
- mutagenic
mutagenic
20,224 corpus weight
- Nadeau
Nadeau
20,223 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Murugan” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Murugan |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #79,776 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Murugan” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Murugan is uncommon English at frequency #79,776 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A Hindu deity, especially popular among Tamils, worshipped in areas of South India.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Murugan, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. 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: Borrowed from Tamil முருகன் (murukaṉ). The correct English form is Murugan, spelled M-U-R-U-G-A-N.
Definition
- 1A Hindu deity, especially popular among Tamils, worshipped in areas of South India.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Murugan appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The temple was […] dedicated to Murugan, the god of war, to whom he had always shown particular devotion.
Etymology
Borrowed from Tamil முருகன் (murukaṉ).
Synonyms
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
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).