blackmailer
"blackmailer" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“blackmailer” is uncommon English (frequency #80,249 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,249
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Someone who blackmails.
Corpus desk
Index EN-blackmailer · blackmailer · English
blackmailer · rank #80,249 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,249
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH blacklight
Nearest frequency peer: blacklight (-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 “blackmailer”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- bimbos
bimbos
19,755 corpus weight
- blacklight
blacklight
19,753 corpus weight
- blackmailer
blackmailer
19,752 corpus weight
- Blaire
Blaire
19,750 corpus weight
- Blakeley
Blakeley
19,749 corpus weight
- Blalock
Blalock
19,748 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “blackmailer” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | blackmailer |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #80,249 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “blackmailer” in English
Rare enough to double-check
blackmailer is uncommon English at frequency #80,249 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Someone who blackmails.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for blackmailer, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From blackmail + -er. The correct English form is blackmailer, spelled B-L-A-C-K-M-A-I-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Someone who blackmails.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how blackmailer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"It’s a crime crueller and infinitely worse in its results than murder. As a lawyer, I can only say that I have consistently refused to defend a blackmailer or to prosecute any poor devil who does away with his tormentor.”
This sex blackmailer and dryhanded public virgin was lunching secretly each week with the East Coast spokesman for organized crime, Frank Costello, in N.Y. Central Park's Tavern on the Green (according to the Time magazine obituary).
Etymology
From blackmail + -er.
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 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).