postgrad
/pousˈɡɹɛːt/
"postgrad" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“postgrad” is uncommon English (frequency #89,783 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,783
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abbreviation of postgraduate.
Corpus desk
Index EN-postgrad · postgrad · English
postgrad · rank #89,783 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,783
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH possessiveness
Nearest frequency peer: possessiveness (-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 “postgrad”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- pomodoro
pomodoro
10,224 corpus weight
- porterhouse
porterhouse
10,222 corpus weight
- Portola
Portola
10,221 corpus weight
- possessiven…
possessiveness
10,219 corpus weight
- postgrad
postgrad
10,218 corpus weight
- potlatch
potlatch
10,217 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “postgrad” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | postgrad |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /pousˈɡɹɛːt/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #89,783 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “postgrad” in English
Rare enough to double-check
postgrad is uncommon English at frequency #89,783 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /pousˈɡɹɛːt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Abbreviation of postgraduate.".
postgrad has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is postgrad, spelled P-O-S-T-G-R-A-D.
Definition
- 1Abbreviation of postgraduate.
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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