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Test your word knowledge with this quiz! Can you name words which are also top US surnames? Average weighted rank given with first letter and number of letters.

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Common Words Which Are Also Common Surnames

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Name the words which are in the top 5000 most common and are among the top 1000 US surnames. Average weighted rank given (average of surname rank with the word rank divided by 5), along with first letter and number of letters.

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Joelle

7 years ago

Really surprised that some names didn’t make the cut for top 5000 words. This would be a great quiz to expand dictionary-wise! I like to extract words from a list using a VBA script that matches things to the native Excel spellcheck file 🙂

jdk

7 years ago

Surprising that Johnson made the list but Wang didn’t…

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