Rothbard
"rothbard" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Rothbard” is uncommon English (frequency #74,463 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,463
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname from German.
Corpus desk
Index EN-rothbard · Rothbard · English
Rothbard · rank #74,463 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,463
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH RSP
Nearest frequency peer: RSP (+2 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 “Rothbard”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Rhona
Rhona
25,546 corpus weight
- Rothbard
Rothbard
25,538 corpus weight
- RSP
RSP
25,536 corpus weight
- ruckman
ruckman
25,534 corpus weight
- rud
rud
25,533 corpus weight
- ruffling
ruffling
25,532 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Rothbard” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Rothbard |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #74,463 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Rothbard” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Rothbard is uncommon English at frequency #74,463 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname from German.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Rothbard, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Altered spelling of German Rothbart. The correct English form is Rothbard, spelled R-O-T-H-B-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1A surname from German.
Etymology
Altered spelling of German Rothbart.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).