Rogoff
/ɹoʊɡɑf/
"rogoff" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Rogoff” is uncommon English (frequency #88,785 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,785
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname from Russian.
Corpus desk
Index EN-rogoff · Rogoff · English
Rogoff · rank #88,785 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,785
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH Roehampton
Nearest frequency peer: Roehampton (-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 “Rogoff”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- returnee
returnee
11,223 corpus weight
- reusability
reusability
11,222 corpus weight
- Roehampton
Roehampton
11,217 corpus weight
- Rogoff
Rogoff
11,216 corpus weight
- rollerball
rollerball
11,215 corpus weight
- rosado
rosado
11,212 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Rogoff” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Rogoff |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ɹoʊɡɑf/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #88,785 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Rogoff” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Rogoff is uncommon English at frequency #88,785 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ɹoʊɡɑf/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname from Russian.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Rogoff in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Variant of Russian Рогов (Rogov). The correct English form is Rogoff, spelled R-O-G-O-F-F.
Definition
- 1A surname from Russian.
Etymology
Variant of Russian Рогов (Rogov).
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).