abductors
/æbˈdʌk.tɚz/
"abductors" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“abductors” is uncommon English (frequency #74,700 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,700
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of abductor
Corpus desk
Index EN-abductors · abductors · English
abductors · rank #74,700 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,700
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH AAV
Nearest frequency peer: AAV (-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 “abductors”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- AAV
AAV
25,302 corpus weight
- abductors
abductors
25,301 corpus weight
- Abelard
Abelard
25,299 corpus weight
- abnegation
abnegation
25,298 corpus weight
- Aitchison
Aitchison
25,292 corpus weight
- Akiba
Akiba
25,291 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “abductors” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abductors |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /æbˈdʌk.tɚz/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #74,700 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “abductors” in English
Rare enough to double-check
abductors is uncommon English at frequency #74,700 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /æbˈdʌk.tɚz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of abductor".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for abductors, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is abductors, spelled A-B-D-U-C-T-O-R-S.
Definition
- 1plural of abductor
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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