activewear
"activewear" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“activewear” is uncommon English (frequency #84,955 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,955
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Casual clothing that is comfortable to wear when exercising or partaking in sport; sportswear.
Corpus desk
Index EN-activewear · activewear · English
activewear · rank #84,955 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,955
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH adda
Nearest frequency peer: adda (+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 “activewear”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- acclimation
acclimation
15,049 corpus weight
- accommodati…
accommodative
15,048 corpus weight
- activewear
activewear
15,046 corpus weight
- adda
adda
15,045 corpus weight
- Adderley
Adderley
15,044 corpus weight
- adit
adit
15,043 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “activewear” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | activewear |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #84,955 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “activewear” in English
Rare enough to double-check
activewear is uncommon English at frequency #84,955 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Casual clothing that is comfortable to wear when exercising or partaking in sport; sportswear.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for activewear, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From active + -wear. The correct English form is activewear, spelled A-C-T-I-V-E-W-E-A-R.
Definition
- 1Casual clothing that is comfortable to wear when exercising or partaking in sport; sportswear.
Etymology
From active + -wear.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).