awestruck
"awestruck" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“awestruck” is uncommon English (frequency #58,524 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,524
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Filled or overcome with awe or wonder.
Corpus desk
Index EN-awestruck · awestruck · English
awestruck · rank #58,524 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,524
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH availing
Nearest frequency peer: availing (-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 “awestruck”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Athol
Athol
41,481 corpus weight
- aubergine
aubergine
41,479 corpus weight
- availing
availing
41,478 corpus weight
- awestruck
awestruck
41,477 corpus weight
- awl
awl
41,476 corpus weight
- axillary
axillary
41,475 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “awestruck” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | awestruck |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #58,524 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “awestruck” in English
Rare enough to double-check
awestruck is uncommon English at frequency #58,524 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Filled or overcome with awe or wonder.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for awestruck, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From awe + struck. The correct English form is awestruck, spelled A-W-E-S-T-R-U-C-K.
Definition
- 1Filled or overcome with awe or wonder.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how awestruck appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Like so many others, I was awestruck by the first season, which captured a moment in time and successfully funnelled its rage outwards at a world in which women are indeed silenced, controlled and killed by men.
Etymology
From awe + struck.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).