cashflow
"cashflow" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cashflow” is uncommon English (frequency #54,072 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,072
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative form of cash flow.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cashflow · cashflow · English
cashflow · rank #54,072 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,072
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH Castel
Nearest frequency peer: Castel (+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 “cashflow”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- buttock
buttock
45,936 corpus weight
- camphor
camphor
45,934 corpus weight
- carman
carman
45,932 corpus weight
- cashflow
cashflow
45,929 corpus weight
- Castel
Castel
45,928 corpus weight
- celestine
celestine
45,926 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “cashflow” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cashflow |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #54,072 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “cashflow” in English
Rare enough to double-check
cashflow is uncommon English at frequency #54,072 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative form of cash flow.".
cashflow has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is cashflow, spelled C-A-S-H-F-L-O-W.
Definition
- 1Alternative form of cash flow.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cashflow appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"Net debt at 31 December 2008 has reduced under $92 million on the back of strong operating cashflows due to substantial growth in revenue."
"The bank's domestic insurance businesses are more valuable to him, not least because they generate substantial cashflows."
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).