afterburner
"afterburner" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“afterburner” is uncommon English (frequency #72,068 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,068
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A device in a jet engine which injects fuel into the exhaust system to increase the thrust.
Corpus desk
Index EN-afterburner · afterburner · English
afterburner · rank #72,068 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,068
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH afterparty
Nearest frequency peer: afterparty (+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 “afterburner”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- ACV
ACV
27,938 corpus weight
- Africana
Africana
27,935 corpus weight
- afterburner
afterburner
27,933 corpus weight
- afterparty
afterparty
27,932 corpus weight
- afters
afters
27,931 corpus weight
- ahm
ahm
27,929 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “afterburner” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | afterburner |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #72,068 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “afterburner” in English
Rare enough to double-check
afterburner is uncommon English at frequency #72,068 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A device in a jet engine which injects fuel into the exhaust system to increase the thrust.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for afterburner, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From after- + burner. The correct English form is afterburner, spelled A-F-T-E-R-B-U-R-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1A device in a jet engine which injects fuel into the exhaust system to increase the thrust.
Etymology
From after- + burner.
Synonyms
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).