brickworks
"brickworks" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“brickworks” is uncommon English (frequency #71,356 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,356
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A place where bricks are made.
Corpus desk
Index EN-brickworks · brickworks · English
brickworks · rank #71,356 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,356
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH bris
Nearest frequency peer: bris (+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 “brickworks”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- brassica
brassica
28,649 corpus weight
- Brattleboro
Brattleboro
28,648 corpus weight
- brickworks
brickworks
28,645 corpus weight
- bris
bris
28,644 corpus weight
- broody
broody
28,643 corpus weight
- Buehler
Buehler
28,641 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “brickworks” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brickworks |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #71,356 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “brickworks” in English
Rare enough to double-check
brickworks is uncommon English at frequency #71,356 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A place where bricks are made.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for brickworks, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From brick + works. The correct English form is brickworks, spelled B-R-I-C-K-W-O-R-K-S.
Definition
- 1A place where bricks are made.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how brickworks appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In addition the Marquess built a brickworks adjacent to the colliery, and also greatly improved the harbour to encourage coastal shipping. A new tramway was laid from the colliery and brickworks to the harbour, using many of the materials from the earlier, now abandoned, railway. […] A short branch ran northwards from the brickworks to an extensive clay p…
Etymology
From brick + works.
Synonyms
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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