ASVAB
"asvab" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“ASVAB” is uncommon English (frequency #85,004 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,004
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Initialism of Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery.
Corpus desk
Index EN-asvab · ASVAB · English
ASVAB · rank #85,004 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,004
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH aspic
Nearest frequency peer: aspic (-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 “ASVAB”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- ascites
ascites
15,001 corpus weight
- Asoka
Asoka
15,000 corpus weight
- aspic
aspic
14,998 corpus weight
- ASVAB
ASVAB
14,997 corpus weight
- Avicenna
Avicenna
14,993 corpus weight
- ayat
ayat
14,992 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “ASVAB” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ASVAB |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #85,004 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “ASVAB” in English
Rare enough to double-check
ASVAB is uncommon English at frequency #85,004 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Initialism of Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery.".
ASVAB doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is ASVAB, spelled A-S-V-A-B.
Definition
- 1Initialism of Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ASVAB appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
We all know at least one Marine who scored 99 on the ASVAB, and we know this because he will typically proclaim it loudly, and often. Usually to try to set himself apart from the horde of ASVAB waivers and Crayon eaters in the Corps — the orange ones taste the best. All joking aside, there’s a lot of smart Marines out there, or at least, smartass Marines.
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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