autocar
"autocar" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“autocar” is uncommon English (frequency #78,380 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,380
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A road vehicle powered by steam or electricity rather than by traction.
Corpus desk
Index EN-autocar · autocar · English
autocar · rank #78,380 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,380
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH Avebury
Nearest frequency peer: Avebury (+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 “autocar”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- auberge
auberge
21,624 corpus weight
- authenticat…
authenticator
21,623 corpus weight
- autocar
autocar
21,621 corpus weight
- Avebury
Avebury
21,620 corpus weight
- AZT
AZT
21,619 corpus weight
- baas
baas
21,618 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “autocar” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | autocar |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #78,380 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “autocar” in English
Rare enough to double-check
autocar is uncommon English at frequency #78,380 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A road vehicle powered by steam or electricity rather than by traction.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for autocar in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From auto- (“self-propelled”) + car. The correct English form is autocar, spelled A-U-T-O-C-A-R.
Definition
- 1A road vehicle powered by steam or electricity rather than by traction.
Etymology
From auto- (“self-propelled”) + car.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).