Wurlitzer
"wurlitzer" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Wurlitzer” is uncommon English (frequency #92,259 among 1,759 “W” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,259
- frequency rank, English
- 1,759
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname from German.
Corpus desk
Index EN-wurlitzer · Wurlitzer · English
Wurlitzer · rank #92,259 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,259
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,759
- PHOTO-FINISH wormy
Nearest frequency peer: wormy (-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 “Wurlitzer”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- wisecracking
wisecracking
7,751 corpus weight
- wordlessly
wordlessly
7,746 corpus weight
- workaday
workaday
7,745 corpus weight
- wormy
wormy
7,744 corpus weight
- Wurlitzer
Wurlitzer
7,742 corpus weight
- XSS
XSS
7,736 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Wurlitzer” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Wurlitzer |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #92,259 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Wurlitzer” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Wurlitzer is uncommon English at frequency #92,259 among 1,759 “W” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname from German.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Wurlitzer in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from German Wurlitzer; the jukebox is named after Franz Rudolph Wurlitzer (1831-1914). The correct English form is Wurlitzer, spelled W-U-R-L-I-T-Z-E-R.
Definition
- 1A surname from German.
Etymology
Borrowed from German Wurlitzer; the jukebox is named after Franz Rudolph Wurlitzer (1831-1914).
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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