criminatory

adj

"criminatory" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“criminatory” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
11
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relating to, or involving, crimination; accusatory.

Corpus desk

Index EN-criminatory · criminatory · English

criminatory · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "C" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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Key facts for criminatory
PropertyValue
Headwordcriminatory
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechAdjective
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “criminatory” in English

criminatoryfalls outside the top-100,000 ranked English words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

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

Rare enough to double-check

criminatory is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relating to, or involving, crimination; accusatory.".

criminatory has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is criminatory, spelled C-R-I-M-I-N-A-T-O-R-Y.

Definition

  1. 1
    Relating to, or involving, crimination; accusatory.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. a criminatory behaviour
  2. a criminatory conscience

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 "criminatory"?
"criminatory" is spelled C-R-I-M-I-N-A-T-O-R-Y.
What does "criminatory" mean?
As an adjective, "criminatory" means: Relating to, or involving, crimination; accusatory.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list