proper name
"proper-name" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“proper name” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A word or phrase that has noun part of speech and names a specific object, usually capitalized, for example Martin or New York.
Corpus desk
Index EN-proper-name · proper name · English
proper name · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | proper name |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “proper name” in English
Rare enough to double-check
proper name is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A word or phrase that has noun part of speech and names a specific object, usually capitalized, for example Martin or New York.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for proper name, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is proper name, spelled P-R-O-P-E-R- -N-A-M-E.
Definition
- 1A word or phrase that has noun part of speech and names a specific object, usually capitalized, for example Martin or New York.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how proper name appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A proper name, when it occurs in a proposition, is always, at least according to one of the possible ways of analysis (where there are several), the subject that the proposition or some subordinate constituent proposition is about, and not what is said about the subject.
We might clarify some of the points made in this chapter by comparing paradigm proper names with degenerate proper names like "the Bank of England".
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.