collaboratress
"collaboratress" is a 14-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“collaboratress” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A female collaborator.
Corpus desk
Index EN-collaboratress · collaboratress · English
collaboratress · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | collaboratress |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “collaboratress” in English
Rare enough to double-check
collaboratress is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A female collaborator.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for collaboratress, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From collaborator + -ess. The correct English form is collaboratress, spelled C-O-L-L-A-B-O-R-A-T-R-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1A female collaborator.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how collaboratress appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
But does this entire movement only mean, as an evil tongue has already suggested, that the majority of the collaboratresses and lady readers of Woman are poor in attractions and rich in years—wretched old maids who have become parched and yellow over their embroidery during their long and bitter existence; unfortunate, disdained ones, whom love has ignore…
Mrs. Cady Stanton, the editress, says she and her collaboratresses would have liked some scholarship, and they asked for it from “several distinguished women,” but these were afraid that “their high reputation and scholarly attainments might be compromised by taking part in an enterprise that for a time may prove very unpopular.”
Etymology
From collaborator + -ess.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.