banditry
"banditry" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“banditry” is uncommon English (frequency #76,562 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,562
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Acts characteristic of a bandit; armed robbery.
Corpus desk
Index EN-banditry · banditry · English
banditry · rank #76,562 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,562
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH Barbaro
Nearest frequency peer: Barbaro (+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 “banditry”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
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23,445 corpus weight
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23,442 corpus weight
- banditry
banditry
23,439 corpus weight
- Barbaro
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23,438 corpus weight
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23,434 corpus weight
- bearcat
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23,433 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “banditry” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | banditry |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #76,562 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “banditry” in English
Rare enough to double-check
banditry is uncommon English at frequency #76,562 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Acts characteristic of a bandit; armed robbery.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for banditry, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From bandit + -ry. The correct English form is banditry, spelled B-A-N-D-I-T-R-Y.
Definition
- 1Acts characteristic of a bandit; armed robbery.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how banditry appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The merchant refused to travel in the region due to the ongoing banditry.
Etymology
From bandit + -ry.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).