chairlift
"chairlift" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“chairlift” is uncommon English (frequency #65,774 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,774
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A continuously moving series of open seats, slung from overhead cables, used to transport people (especially skiers) up the sides of mountains.
Corpus desk
Index EN-chairlift · chairlift · English
chairlift · rank #65,774 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,774
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH chace
Nearest frequency peer: chace (-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 “chairlift”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- cellulosic
cellulosic
34,231 corpus weight
- Celt
Celt
34,230 corpus weight
- chabot
chabot
34,229 corpus weight
- chace
chace
34,228 corpus weight
- chairlift
chairlift
34,227 corpus weight
- childe
childe
34,225 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “chairlift” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chairlift |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #65,774 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “chairlift” in English
Rare enough to double-check
chairlift is uncommon English at frequency #65,774 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A continuously moving series of open seats, slung from overhead cables, used to transport people (especially skiers) up the sides of mountains.".
chairlift doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, 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, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From chair + lift. The correct English form is chairlift, spelled C-H-A-I-R-L-I-F-T.
Definition
- 1A continuously moving series of open seats, slung from overhead cables, used to transport people (especially skiers) up the sides of mountains.
Etymology
From chair + lift.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).