American football
"american-football" is a 16-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“American football” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A team sport similar to rugby football, played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | American football |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “American football” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
American football is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A team sport similar to rugby football, played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for American football in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is American football, spelled A-M-E-R-I-C-A-N- -F-O-O-T-B-A-L-L.
Definition
- 1A team sport similar to rugby football, played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “American football”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is A-M-E-R-I-C-A-N- -F-O-O-T-B-A-L-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.