Thurgood
"thurgood" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Thurgood” is uncommon English (frequency #59,761 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,761
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname transferred from the given name.
Corpus desk
Index EN-thurgood · Thurgood · English
Thurgood · rank #59,761 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,761
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH Thurlow
Nearest frequency peer: Thurlow (+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 “Thurgood”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Thacker
Thacker
40,243 corpus weight
- thalidomide
thalidomide
40,242 corpus weight
- Thurgood
Thurgood
40,240 corpus weight
- Thurlow
Thurlow
40,239 corpus weight
- TIF
TIF
40,238 corpus weight
- Timorese
Timorese
40,236 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Thurgood” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Thurgood |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #59,761 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Thurgood” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Thurgood is uncommon English at frequency #59,761 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname transferred from the given name.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Thurgood in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From the Middle English personal name Thurgod, an Anglicized form of Old Norse Þorgautr, a personal name composed of the elements Þórr (“Thor”) and the demonym Gautr (“Geat”). The correct English form is Thurgood, spelled T-H-U-R-G-O-O-D.
Definition
- 1A surname transferred from the given name.
Etymology
From the Middle English personal name Thurgod, an Anglicized form of Old Norse Þorgautr, a personal name composed of the elements Þórr (“Thor”) and the demonym Gautr (“Geat”).
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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