confidential informant
/ˌkɒnfɪˈdɛnʃəl ɪnˈfɔː(ɹ)mənt/
"confidential-informant" is a 21-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“confidential informant” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 22
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 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.
| 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) |
Where “confidential informant” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for confidential informant is 22 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˌkɒnfɪˈdɛnʃəl ɪnˈfɔː(ɹ)mənt/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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.
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Using “confidential informant”
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- The one correct English spelling is C-O-N-F-I-D-E-N-T-I-A-L- -I-N-F-O-R-M-A-N-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˌkɒnfɪˈdɛnʃəl ɪnˈfɔː(ɹ)mənt/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.