Zoltan
"zoltan" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Zoltan” is uncommon English (frequency #57,189 among 265 “Z” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,189
- frequency rank, English
- 265
- “Z” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A male given name from Hungarian Zoltán.
Corpus desk
Index EN-zoltan · Zoltan · English
Zoltan · rank #57,189 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,189
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 265
- PHOTO-FINISH zookeeper
Nearest frequency peer: zookeeper (+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 “Zoltan”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Xiamen
Xiamen
42,818 corpus weight
- Yamazaki
Yamazaki
42,817 corpus weight
- Yogyakarta
Yogyakarta
42,816 corpus weight
- Zoltan
Zoltan
42,812 corpus weight
- zookeeper
zookeeper
42,811 corpus weight
- abbots
abbots
42,806 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Zoltan” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Zoltan |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #57,189 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Zoltan” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Zoltan is uncommon English at frequency #57,189 among 265 “Z” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A male given name from Hungarian Zoltán.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Zoltan, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Hungarian Zoltán, from szultán (“sultan”), from Ottoman Turkish سلطان (sultan), from Arabic سُلْطَان (sulṭān, “ruler”). Doublet of sultan. The correct English form is Zoltan, spelled Z-O-L-T-A-N.
Definition
- 1A male given name from Hungarian Zoltán.
Etymology
From Hungarian Zoltán, from szultán (“sultan”), from Ottoman Turkish سلطان (sultan), from Arabic سُلْطَان (sulṭān, “ruler”). Doublet of sultan.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).