addressee
"addressee" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“addressee” is uncommon English (frequency #63,404 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,404
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The person or organization to which something, such as a letter or message, is addressed or sent, for whom the item is intended.
Corpus desk
Index EN-addressee · addressee · English
addressee · rank #63,404 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,404
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH acrimony
Nearest frequency peer: acrimony (-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 “addressee”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- acai
acai
36,600 corpus weight
- acrimony
acrimony
36,598 corpus weight
- addressee
addressee
36,597 corpus weight
- adenine
adenine
36,596 corpus weight
- ADU
ADU
36,595 corpus weight
- Aeneid
Aeneid
36,594 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “addressee” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | addressee |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #63,404 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “addressee” in English
Rare enough to double-check
addressee is uncommon English at frequency #63,404 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for addressee in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From address + -ee. The correct English form is addressee, spelled A-D-D-R-E-S-S-E-E.
Definition
- 1The person or organization to which something, such as a letter or message, is addressed or sent, for whom the item is intended.
- 2A person or entity to whom discourse is directed, or the words referring to such an entity.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how addressee appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Person is a grammatical property which is overtly manifested in so-called Personal Pronouns: forms which include the speaker (I/we) are said to be ‘first personʼ Pronouns; forms which include the addressee (you) and not the speaker are said to be ‘second personʼ Pronouns; while forms which exclude both speaker and addressee (he/she/it/they) are ‘third per…
Etymology
From address + -ee.
This word in other languages
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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