thorp
/θɔːp/
"thorp" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“thorp” is uncommon English (frequency #51,447 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,447
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A group of houses standing together in the country; a hamlet; a village.
Corpus desk
Index EN-thorp · thorp · English
thorp · rank #51,447 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,447
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH thimble
Nearest frequency peer: thimble (-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 “thorp”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Theobald
Theobald
48,557 corpus weight
- Thessalonia…
Thessalonians
48,556 corpus weight
- thimble
thimble
48,555 corpus weight
- thorp
thorp
48,554 corpus weight
- tikka
tikka
48,553 corpus weight
- timur
timur
48,552 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “thorp” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “thorp” in English
Rare enough to double-check
thorp is uncommon English at frequency #51,447 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /θɔːp/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how thorp appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Within a little thorp I staid.
A plague upon the people fell, / A famine after laid them low, / Then thorpe and byre arose in fire, / For on them brake the sudden foe; […]
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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