Umayyad
"umayyad" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Umayyad” is uncommon English (frequency #80,992 among 1,433 “U” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,992
- frequency rank, English
- 1,433
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Of or relating to the Umayyad dynasty, which ruled the Umayyad Caliphate from Damascus between 661 and 744 then from Harran until 750, and al-Andalus between 756 and 1031.
Corpus desk
Index EN-umayyad · Umayyad · English
Umayyad · rank #80,992 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,992
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,433
- PHOTO-FINISH umpteen
Nearest frequency peer: umpteen (+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.
Long-tail ranks near “Umayyad”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Typhon
Typhon
19,014 corpus weight
- Umayyad
Umayyad
19,009 corpus weight
- umpteen
umpteen
19,007 corpus weight
- UNCTAD
UNCTAD
19,006 corpus weight
- unfree
unfree
19,005 corpus weight
- unfurnished
unfurnished
19,004 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Umayyad” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Umayyad |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #80,992 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Umayyad” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Umayyad is uncommon English at frequency #80,992 among 1,433 “U” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Of or relating to the Umayyad dynasty, which ruled the Umayyad Caliphate from Damascus between 661 and 744 then from Harran until 750, and al-Andalus between 756 and 1031.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Umayyad in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Umayya + -id. The correct English form is Umayyad, spelled U-M-A-Y-Y-A-D.
Definition
- 1Of or relating to the Umayyad dynasty, which ruled the Umayyad Caliphate from Damascus between 661 and 744 then from Harran until 750, and al-Andalus between 756 and 1031.
Etymology
From Umayya + -id.
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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