consignee
/ˌkɒn.saɪˈniː/
"consignee" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“consignee” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The person to whom a shipment is to be delivered.
Corpus desk
Index EN-consignee · consignee · English
consignee · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 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 | consignee |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˌkɒn.saɪˈniː/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “consignee” in English
Rare enough to double-check
consignee is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˌkɒn.saɪˈniː/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
consignee doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From consign + -ee. The correct English form is consignee, spelled C-O-N-S-I-G-N-E-E.
Definition
- 1The person to whom a shipment is to be delivered.
- 2One to whom anything is consigned or entrusted.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how consignee appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The letter had been given to the two Englishmen by a good friend of theirs in London, who had been in America two years previously, and had singled out Mr. J. L. Westgate from the many friends he had left there as the consignee, as it were, of his compatriots.
Etymology
From consign + -ee.
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.