bookbinder
"bookbinder" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bookbinder” is uncommon English (frequency #91,309 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,309
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A person whose profession is binding pages together to form books.
Corpus desk
Index EN-bookbinder · bookbinder · English
bookbinder · rank #91,309 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,309
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH bonhams
Nearest frequency peer: bonhams (-2 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 “bookbinder”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Boileau
Boileau
8,696 corpus weight
- bonhams
bonhams
8,694 corpus weight
- bookbinder
bookbinder
8,692 corpus weight
- Bosse
Bosse
8,690 corpus weight
- bove
bove
8,688 corpus weight
- Braddon
Braddon
8,686 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “bookbinder” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bookbinder |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #91,309 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “bookbinder” in English
Rare enough to double-check
bookbinder is uncommon English at frequency #91,309 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A person whose profession is binding pages together to form books.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for bookbinder in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English bokebynder, bok-bindere, equivalent to book + binder. The correct English form is bookbinder, spelled B-O-O-K-B-I-N-D-E-R.
Definition
- 1A person whose profession is binding pages together to form books.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bookbinder appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Places of Employment: About 69,000 bookbinders and bindery workers were employed [in the United States] in 1978. Many worked in shops that specialize in bookbinding; others work in the bindery departments of book printing firms, commercial printing plants, and large libraries. Some bookbinders worked for the Federal Government. Although bookbinders work i…
During his seven-year apprenticeship to a bookbinder, [Michael] Faraday came across a single volume that changed his life: Isaac Watts's The Improvement of the Mind. Now largely forgotten, it was an early self-help book that contained a list of sixteen general rules for the improvement of knowledge. It also contained an overview of books and reading, a gu…
Etymology
From Middle English bokebynder, bok-bindere, equivalent to book + binder.
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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