asylum seeker
/əˈsaɪːləm siːkɚ/
"asylum-seeker" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“asylum seeker” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A person who has applied for asylum in a foreign country but has not yet been granted refugee status by that country.
Corpus desk
Index EN-asylum-seeker · asylum seeker · English
asylum seeker · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | asylum seeker |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /əˈsaɪːləm siːkɚ/ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “asylum seeker” in English
Rare enough to double-check
asylum seeker is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /əˈsaɪːləm siːkɚ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A person who has applied for asylum in a foreign country but has not yet been granted refugee status by that country.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for asylum seeker in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is asylum seeker, spelled A-S-Y-L-U-M- -S-E-E-K-E-R.
Definition
- 1A person who has applied for asylum in a foreign country but has not yet been granted refugee status by that country.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how asylum seeker appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He stayed with friends and even spent a few nights in a hotel when had nowhere else to go. In September 2019, he moved into a flat with three other gay asylum seekers through Le Refuge, an organisation supporting isolated LGBTQI+ youth.
In Manchester and in Aldershot in Hampshire, asylum seeker accommodation was targeted by demonstrators carrying placards that read “deport them, don’t support them” and “no apartments for illegals”.
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.