Sherburne
"sherburne" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Sherburne” is uncommon English (frequency #88,845 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,845
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname.
Corpus desk
Index EN-sherburne · Sherburne · English
Sherburne · rank #88,845 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,845
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH sheerness
Nearest frequency peer: sheerness (-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 “Sherburne”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- shapewear
shapewear
11,160 corpus weight
- sharer
sharer
11,158 corpus weight
- sheerness
sheerness
11,157 corpus weight
- Sherburne
Sherburne
11,156 corpus weight
- Sherrington
Sherrington
11,155 corpus weight
- shipmate
shipmate
11,152 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Sherburne” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Sherburne |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #88,845 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Sherburne” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Sherburne is uncommon English at frequency #88,845 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Sherburne in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Old English scīr (“bright”) in the definite form, scīra + burna (“stream”). The correct English form is Sherburne, spelled S-H-E-R-B-U-R-N-E.
Definition
- 1A surname.
Etymology
From Old English scīr (“bright”) in the definite form, scīra + burna (“stream”).
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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).