ballplayer
"ballplayer" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“ballplayer” is uncommon English (frequency #74,749 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,749
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative form of ball player.
Corpus desk
Index EN-ballplayer · ballplayer · English
ballplayer · rank #74,749 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,749
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH bailie
Nearest frequency peer: bailie (-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 “ballplayer”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- backbencher
backbencher
25,256 corpus weight
- Bago
Bago
25,254 corpus weight
- bailie
bailie
25,253 corpus weight
- ballplayer
ballplayer
25,252 corpus weight
- Bartlesville
Bartlesville
25,248 corpus weight
- Bastrop
Bastrop
25,247 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “ballplayer” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ballplayer |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #74,749 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “ballplayer” in English
Rare enough to double-check
ballplayer is uncommon English at frequency #74,749 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative form of ball player.".
No misspelling variants are generated for ballplayer in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is ballplayer, spelled B-A-L-L-P-L-A-Y-E-R.
Definition
- 1Alternative form of ball player.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ballplayer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[Al] Horvat landed the role of a ballplayer, wielding a huge baseball glove and mugging for the camera.
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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