confidential informant
/ˌkɒnfɪˈdɛnʃəl ɪnˈfɔː(ɹ)mənt/
"confidential-informant" is a 21-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“confidential informant” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 22
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An individual who secretly provides information to the police about wrongdoing which they are aware of due to the individual's relationship to the wrongdoer.
Corpus desk
Index EN-confidential-informant · confidential informant · English
confidential informant · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 22 letters
- VOW-8 8 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 | confidential informant |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˌkɒnfɪˈdɛnʃəl ɪnˈfɔː(ɹ)mənt/ |
| Letters | 22 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “confidential informant” in English
Rare enough to double-check
confidential informant is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˌkɒnfɪˈdɛnʃəl ɪnˈfɔː(ɹ)mənt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An individual who secretly provides information to the police about wrongdoing which they are aware of due to the individual's relationship to the wrongdoer.".
No misspelling variants are generated for confidential informant in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is confidential informant, spelled C-O-N-F-I-D-E-N-T-I-A-L- -I-N-F-O-R-M-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1An individual who secretly provides information to the police about wrongdoing which they are aware of due to the individual's relationship to the wrongdoer.
This word in other languages
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.