Brutalist
"brutalist" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Brutalist” is uncommon English (frequency #66,525 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,525
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pertaining to Brutalism, a style of modernist architecture characterized by the use of board-marked concrete
Corpus desk
Index EN-brutalist · Brutalist · English
Brutalist · rank #66,525 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,525
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH bryony
Nearest frequency peer: bryony (+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 “Brutalist”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- bratwurst
bratwurst
33,479 corpus weight
- brickyard
brickyard
33,478 corpus weight
- Brutalist
Brutalist
33,476 corpus weight
- bryony
bryony
33,475 corpus weight
- buccal
buccal
33,474 corpus weight
- buckaroo
buckaroo
33,473 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Brutalist” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Brutalist |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #66,525 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Brutalist” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Brutalist is uncommon English at frequency #66,525 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pertaining to Brutalism, a style of modernist architecture characterized by the use of board-marked concrete".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Brutalist, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From brutal + -ist. The correct English form is Brutalist, spelled B-R-U-T-A-L-I-S-T.
Definition
- 1Pertaining to Brutalism, a style of modernist architecture characterized by the use of board-marked concrete
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Brutalist appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[...] after the original Victorian station was demolished and then entombed in concrete in the 1960s, Birmingham New Street became a byword for the worst excesses of the much-loathed Brutalist architecture so widely used to reconstruct inner-city post-war Britain.
Etymology
From brutal + -ist.
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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