choirmaster
"choirmaster" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“choirmaster” is uncommon English (frequency #82,174 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,174
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - the musical director of a choir, who conducts performances and supervises rehearsal
Corpus desk
Index EN-choirmaster · choirmaster · English
choirmaster · rank #82,174 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,174
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH chok
Nearest frequency peer: chok (+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 “choirmaster”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- chay
chay
17,833 corpus weight
- Cheatham
Cheatham
17,832 corpus weight
- Chel
Chel
17,831 corpus weight
- choirmaster
choirmaster
17,827 corpus weight
- chok
chok
17,826 corpus weight
- civet
civet
17,822 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “choirmaster” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | choirmaster |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #82,174 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “choirmaster” in English
Rare enough to double-check
choirmaster is uncommon English at frequency #82,174 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "the musical director of a choir, who conducts performances and supervises rehearsal".
choirmaster has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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 choir + master, a calque of German Chormeister. Piecewise doublet of chorusmaster. The correct English form is choirmaster, spelled C-H-O-I-R-M-A-S-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1the musical director of a choir, who conducts performances and supervises rehearsal
Etymology
From choir + master, a calque of German Chormeister. Piecewise doublet of chorusmaster.
Synonyms
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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 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).