Tolliver
"tolliver" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Tolliver” is uncommon English (frequency #69,523 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,523
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname.
Corpus desk
Index EN-tolliver · Tolliver · English
Tolliver · rank #69,523 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,523
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH Tortuga
Nearest frequency peer: Tortuga (+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 “Tolliver”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- tizzy
tizzy
30,483 corpus weight
- TLE
TLE
30,482 corpus weight
- Tolliver
Tolliver
30,478 corpus weight
- Tortuga
Tortuga
30,477 corpus weight
- towner
towner
30,475 corpus weight
- tows
tows
30,474 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Tolliver” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tolliver |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #69,523 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Tolliver” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Tolliver is uncommon English at frequency #69,523 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Tolliver, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Anglicized from the occupational surname Tagliaferro, from tagliaferro (“iron-cutter”). The correct English form is Tolliver, spelled T-O-L-L-I-V-E-R.
Definition
- 1A surname.
Etymology
Anglicized from the occupational surname Tagliaferro, from tagliaferro (“iron-cutter”).
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).