COINTELPRO
"cointelpro" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“COINTELPRO” is uncommon English (frequency #90,299 among 43,570 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,299
- frequency rank, English
- 43,570
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Initialism of Counter-intelligence program.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cointelpro · COINTELPRO · English
COINTELPRO · rank #90,299 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,299
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 43,570
- PHOTO-FINISH Cobo
Nearest frequency peer: Cobo (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “COINTELPRO”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Cipriano
Cipriano
9,710 corpus weight
- Clackmannan…
Clackmannanshire
9,706 corpus weight
- Cobo
Cobo
9,703 corpus weight
- COINTELPRO
COINTELPRO
9,702 corpus weight
- Colusa
Colusa
9,700 corpus weight
- concertmast…
concertmaster
9,695 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “COINTELPRO” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | COINTELPRO |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #90,299 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “COINTELPRO” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
COINTELPRO is uncommon English at frequency #90,299 among 43,570 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Initialism of Counter-intelligence program.".
No misspelling variants are generated for COINTELPRO in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is COINTELPRO, spelled C-O-I-N-T-E-L-P-R-O.
Definition
- 1Initialism of Counter-intelligence program.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.