coster
"coster" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“coster” is uncommon English (frequency #57,309 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,309
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Clipping of costermonger.
Corpus desk
Index EN-coster · coster · English
coster · rank #57,309 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,309
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH costar
Nearest frequency peer: costar (-1 rank slots)
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.
Long-tail ranks near “coster”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- cooing
cooing
42,697 corpus weight
- costar
costar
42,693 corpus weight
- coster
coster
42,692 corpus weight
- creosote
creosote
42,689 corpus weight
- crumbly
crumbly
42,688 corpus weight
- cultists
cultists
42,686 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “coster” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coster |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #57,309 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “coster” in English
Rare enough to double-check
coster is uncommon English at frequency #57,309 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for coster in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 coster, spelled C-O-S-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Clipping of costermonger.
- 2A costard: a large apple good for cooking; any apple.
- 3Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Acraea.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how coster appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
It was nearly eleven o'clock now, and he strolled out again. In the little fair created by the costers' barrows the evening only seemed beginning; and the naphtha flares made one's eyes ache, the men's voices grated harshly, and the girls' faces saddened one.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).