rutherford
"rutherford" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“rutherford” has 16 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #17,946. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,946
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An obsolete unit of radioactivity (symbol: rd), defined as the activity of a quantity of radioactive material in which one million nuclei decay per second.
Corpus desk
Index EN-rutherford · rutherford · English
rutherford · rank #17,946 · 16 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,946
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH rustic
Nearest frequency peer: rustic (-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 “rutherford”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
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roadway
82,058 corpus weight
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Rollins
82,057 corpus weight
- rustic
rustic
82,056 corpus weight
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rutherford
82,055 corpus weight
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sanitary
82,053 corpus weight
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Sao
82,052 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “rutherford” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rutherford |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #17,946 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “rutherford” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around rutherford, anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,946 among 3,094 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "An obsolete unit of radioactivity (symbol: rd), defined as the activity of a quantity of radioactive material in which one million nuclei decay per second.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for rutherford, with forms such as "rrutherford", "rtuherford", and "ruhterford". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: After Ernest Rutherford. The correct English form is rutherford, spelled R-U-T-H-E-R-F-O-R-D.
Definition
- 1An obsolete unit of radioactivity (symbol: rd), defined as the activity of a quantity of radioactive material in which one million nuclei decay per second.
Etymology
After Ernest Rutherford.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- rrutherford
- rtuherford
- ruhterford
- rutehrford
- ruthefrord
- rutherfford
- rutherfodr
- rutherfordd
- rutherforrd
- rutherfrod
- rutherofrd
- rutherrford
- ruthherford
- ruthreford
- ruttherford
- urtherford
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rutherford - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).
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Data Source
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.