thorp
/θɔːp/
"thorp" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“thorp” is an uncommon English word, ranked #51,447 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #51,447
- frequency rank, English
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A group of houses standing together in the country; a hamlet; a village.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | thorp |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /θɔːp/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #51,447 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “thorp” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for thorp is 5 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /θɔːp/. Corpus data places it at rank #51,447 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "A group of houses standing together in the country; a hamlet; a village.".
thorp doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English thorp, throp, from Old English þorp, þrop (“farm, village”), from Proto-West Germanic *þorp, from Proto-Germanic *þurpą, *þrepą (“village, farmstead, troop”), from Proto-Indo-European *trab-, *treb- (“dwelling, room”). Doublet of dorf an… The correct English form is thorp, spelled T-H-O-R-P.
Definition
- 1A group of houses standing together in the country; a hamlet; a village.
Etymology
From Middle English thorp, throp, from Old English þorp, þrop (“farm, village”), from Proto-West Germanic *þorp, from Proto-Germanic *þurpą, *þrepą (“village, farmstead, troop”), from Proto-Indo-European *trab-, *treb- (“dwelling, room”). Doublet of dorf and dorp, and possibly also of troop and troupe.
This word in other languages
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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Using “thorp”
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- The one correct English spelling is T-H-O-R-P - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.