corrections officer
"corrections-officer" is a 18-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“corrections officer” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A jailer.
Corpus desk
Index EN-corrections-officer · corrections officer · English
corrections officer · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 19 letters
- VOW-7 7 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 | corrections officer |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “corrections officer” in English
Rare enough to double-check
corrections officer is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A jailer.".
Zero misspellings are on record for corrections officer in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 corrections officer, spelled C-O-R-R-E-C-T-I-O-N-S- -O-F-F-I-C-E-R.
Definition
- 1A jailer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how corrections officer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Frank was proud of the fact that in all his years as a corrections officer, he had never been assaulted by an inmate.
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.