Tooley
"tooley" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Tooley” is uncommon English (frequency #81,909 among 27,828 “T” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,909
- frequency rank, English
- 27,828
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A surname from Old Norse.
Corpus desk
Index EN-tooley · Tooley · English
Tooley · rank #81,909 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,909
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 27,828
- PHOTO-FINISH Toohey
Nearest frequency peer: Toohey (-2 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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Tooley”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Tirpitz
Tirpitz
18,097 corpus weight
- TNR
TNR
18,095 corpus weight
- Toohey
Toohey
18,094 corpus weight
- Tooley
Tooley
18,092 corpus weight
- toque
toque
18,090 corpus weight
- toty
toty
18,087 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Tooley” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tooley |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #81,909 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Tooley” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Tooley is uncommon English at frequency #81,909 among 27,828 “T” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname from Old Norse.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Tooley, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Anglicized form of the Old Norse personal name Þórleifr, which is composed of the elements Þórr (“Thor”) and leifr (“inheritor”) (compare líf). (Note: Tooley Street in London, England, is of Old Norse origin, but is not from Þórleifr. It is a shortening of … The correct English form is Tooley, spelled T-O-O-L-E-Y.
Definition
- 1A surname from Old Norse.
Etymology
Anglicized form of the Old Norse personal name Þórleifr, which is composed of the elements Þórr (“Thor”) and leifr (“inheritor”) (compare líf). (Note: Tooley Street in London, England, is of Old Norse origin, but is not from Þórleifr. It is a shortening of Sant Ole, meaning Saint Olaf.)
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.