basketball-player
"basketball-player" is a 16-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“basketball-player” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative form of basketball player.
Corpus desk
Index EN-basketball-player · basketball-player · English
basketball-player · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 17 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" 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 | basketball-player |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “basketball-player” in English
Rare enough to double-check
basketball-player is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative form of basketball player.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for basketball-player, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is basketball-player, spelled B-A-S-K-E-T-B-A-L-L---P-L-A-Y-E-R.
Definition
- 1Alternative form of basketball player.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how basketball-player appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
How frequently do we now see in the daily papers in big type, that So-and-so at such a college is a professional ball-player and that So-and-so at another college is a professional basketball-player.
The fashion was to create live, on-set transformations of man into wolf or to use a sophisticated mix of puppetry and unusually-shaped humans in suits (in some scenes, ET was played by the midget Tamara de Treux, while the alien in Alien was the very tall basketball-player, Bolaji Badejo).
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.