cheapo
"cheapo" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cheapo” is uncommon English (frequency #84,091 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,091
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Inexpensive and of poor quality.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cheapo · cheapo · English
cheapo · rank #84,091 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,091
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH Cheon
Nearest frequency peer: Cheon (+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 “cheapo”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Chang'e
Chang'e
15,915 corpus weight
- Charmian
Charmian
15,914 corpus weight
- cheapo
cheapo
15,910 corpus weight
- Cheon
Cheon
15,909 corpus weight
- chewable
chewable
15,908 corpus weight
- Chicana
Chicana
15,907 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “cheapo” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cheapo |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #84,091 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “cheapo” in English
Rare enough to double-check
cheapo is uncommon English at frequency #84,091 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Inexpensive and of poor quality.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for cheapo in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From cheap + -o (“person with characteristic”, colloquialising suffix). The correct English form is cheapo, spelled C-H-E-A-P-O.
Definition
- 1Inexpensive and of poor quality.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cheapo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
They wanted crystal champagne glasses for the party but the caterers provided cheapo plastic cups instead.
Etymology
From cheap + -o (“person with characteristic”, colloquialising suffix).
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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