Waylon
"waylon" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Waylon” is uncommon English (frequency #55,191 among 1,759 “W” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,191
- frequency rank, English
- 1,759
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A male given name.
Corpus desk
Index EN-waylon · Waylon · English
Waylon · rank #55,191 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,191
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,759
- PHOTO-FINISH wast
Nearest frequency peer: wast (-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 “Waylon”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- vortices
vortices
44,816 corpus weight
- waaay
waaay
44,814 corpus weight
- wast
wast
44,811 corpus weight
- Waylon
Waylon
44,810 corpus weight
- xenia
xenia
44,807 corpus weight
- yad
yad
44,805 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Waylon” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Waylon |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #55,191 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Waylon” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Waylon is uncommon English at frequency #55,191 among 1,759 “W” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A male given name.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Waylon in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Variant of Wayland popularized by the American singer Waylon Jennings who was originally named Wayland. The correct English form is Waylon, spelled W-A-Y-L-O-N.
Definition
- 1A male given name.
Etymology
Variant of Wayland popularized by the American singer Waylon Jennings who was originally named Wayland.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).