Rushdie
/ˈɹʊʃdi/
"rushdie" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Rushdie” is uncommon English (frequency #50,207 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,207
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname.
Corpus desk
Index EN-rushdie · Rushdie · English
Rushdie · rank #50,207 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,207
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH sah
Nearest frequency peer: sah (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Rushdie”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- romancing
romancing
49,797 corpus weight
- roti
roti
49,796 corpus weight
- Rushdie
Rushdie
49,794 corpus weight
- sah
sah
49,793 corpus weight
- Salafi
Salafi
49,792 corpus weight
- Sani
Sani
49,791 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Rushdie” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Rushdie |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈɹʊʃdi/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #50,207 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Rushdie” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Rushdie is uncommon English at frequency #50,207 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈɹʊʃdi/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Rushdie, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 Rushdie, spelled R-U-S-H-D-I-E.
Definition
- 1A surname.
- 2A male given name.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Rushdie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In 2015, one person was killed in Copenhagen at a meeting meant to mark the 25th anniversary of an Iranian fatwa against British writer Salman Rushdie, which Vilks attended.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 3, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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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.