antislavery
"antislavery" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“antislavery” is uncommon English (frequency #82,999 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,999
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Opposed to the practice of slavery.
Corpus desk
Index EN-antislavery · antislavery · English
antislavery · rank #82,999 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,999
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH anthropoid
Nearest frequency peer: anthropoid (-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 “antislavery”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Angulo
Angulo
17,007 corpus weight
- Anju
Anju
17,005 corpus weight
- anthropoid
anthropoid
17,003 corpus weight
- antislavery
antislavery
17,002 corpus weight
- apeshit
apeshit
17,000 corpus weight
- Appleyard
Appleyard
16,998 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “antislavery” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | antislavery |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #82,999 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “antislavery” in English
Rare enough to double-check
antislavery is uncommon English at frequency #82,999 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Opposed to the practice of slavery.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for antislavery, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From anti- + slavery. The correct English form is antislavery, spelled A-N-T-I-S-L-A-V-E-R-Y.
Definition
- 1Opposed to the practice of slavery.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how antislavery appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Prior to the U.S. Civil War, there were a number of northern periodicals devoted to publishing antislavery content.
Etymology
From anti- + slavery.
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).