chainmail
"chainmail" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“chainmail” is uncommon English (frequency #81,217 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,217
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative spelling of chain mail.
Corpus desk
Index EN-chainmail · chainmail · English
chainmail · rank #81,217 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,217
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH ceremoniously
Nearest frequency peer: ceremoniously (-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 “chainmail”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Ceasar
Ceasar
18,788 corpus weight
- ceremonious…
ceremoniously
18,785 corpus weight
- chainmail
chainmail
18,784 corpus weight
- chamfered
chamfered
18,782 corpus weight
- Chardon
Chardon
18,781 corpus weight
- chateaubria…
chateaubriand
18,780 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “chainmail” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chainmail |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #81,217 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “chainmail” in English
Rare enough to double-check
chainmail is uncommon English at frequency #81,217 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative spelling of chain mail.".
Zero misspellings are on record for chainmail in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is chainmail, spelled C-H-A-I-N-M-A-I-L.
Definition
- 1Alternative spelling of chain mail.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chainmail appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Therefore they associate their protective chainmail with safety.
Chainmail gloves provide a significantly higher level of protection against mechanically driven blades than other products investigated.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).