coachman
/ˈkoʊt͡ʃmən/
"coachman" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“coachman” is uncommon English (frequency #50,429 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,429
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A man who drives a horse-drawn coach, a male coach driver.
Corpus desk
Index EN-coachman · coachman · English
coachman · rank #50,429 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,429
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH co's
Nearest frequency peer: co's (-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 “coachman”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- clubbed
clubbed
49,576 corpus weight
- CMO
CMO
49,574 corpus weight
- co's
co's
49,573 corpus weight
- coachman
coachman
49,572 corpus weight
- cocking
cocking
49,571 corpus weight
- colloquium
colloquium
49,568 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “coachman” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coachman |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkoʊt͡ʃmən/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #50,429 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “coachman” in English
Rare enough to double-check
coachman is uncommon English at frequency #50,429 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈkoʊt͡ʃmən/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for coachman in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From coach + -man. The correct English form is coachman, spelled C-O-A-C-H-M-A-N.
Definition
- 1A man who drives a horse-drawn coach, a male coach driver.
- 2A fish in the genus Heniochus, either Heniochus acuminatus or Heniochus diphreutes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how coachman appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In about half-an-hour John and Mr. York, who was to be our new coachman, came in to see us. "Now Mr. Manly," he said, after carefully looking at us both, "I can see no fault in these horses, but we all know that horses have their peculiarities as well as men, and that sometimes they need different treatment; I should like to know if there is anything part…
Etymology
From coach + -man.
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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