corrections officer

noun

"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.

Key facts for corrections officer
PropertyValue
Headwordcorrections officer
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters19
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “corrections officer” in English

corrections officerranks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    A jailer.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how corrections officer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Frank was proud of the fact that in all his years as a corrections officer, he had never been assaulted by an inmate.

Synonyms

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "corrections officer"?
"corrections officer" is spelled C-O-R-R-E-C-T-I-O-N-S- -O-F-F-I-C-E-R.
What does "corrections officer" mean?
As a noun, "corrections officer" means: A jailer.
What language does "corrections officer" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list