O'Flaherty
/oʊˈflɑːərti/
"o-flaherty" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“O'Flaherty” is an uncommon English word, ranked #83,569 in English word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #83,569
- frequency rank, English
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A surname from Irish
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | O'Flaherty |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /oʊˈflɑːərti/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #83,569 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “O'Flaherty” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for O'Flaherty is 10 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /oʊˈflɑːərti/. Corpus data places it at rank #83,569 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "A surname from Irish".
O'Flaherty doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: Anglicization of Irish Ó Flaithbheartaigh. See also Flaherty. The correct English form is O'Flaherty, spelled O-'-F-L-A-H-E-R-T-Y.
Definition
- 1A surname from Irish
Etymology
Anglicization of Irish Ó Flaithbheartaigh. See also Flaherty.
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 “O'Flaherty”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is O-'-F-L-A-H-E-R-T-Y - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /oʊˈflɑːərti/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.