cellmate
"cellmate" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cellmate” is uncommon English (frequency #65,769 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,769
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A person with whom one shares a prison cell.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cellmate · cellmate · English
cellmate · rank #65,769 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,769
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH cellulosic
Nearest frequency peer: cellulosic (+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 “cellmate”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Carnot
Carnot
34,236 corpus weight
- cartilagino…
cartilaginous
34,234 corpus weight
- cellmate
cellmate
34,232 corpus weight
- cellulosic
cellulosic
34,231 corpus weight
- Celt
Celt
34,230 corpus weight
- chabot
chabot
34,229 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “cellmate” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cellmate |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #65,769 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “cellmate” in English
Rare enough to double-check
cellmate is uncommon English at frequency #65,769 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A person with whom one shares a prison cell.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for cellmate, 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, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From cell + -mate. The correct English form is cellmate, spelled C-E-L-L-M-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1A person with whom one shares a prison cell.
Etymology
From cell + -mate.
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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