crosscheck
"crosscheck" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“crosscheck” is uncommon English (frequency #94,725 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,725
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To verify (information, data, or calculations) by using an alternative source or method.
Corpus desk
Index EN-crosscheck · crosscheck · English
crosscheck · rank #94,725 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,725
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH crinkly
Nearest frequency peer: crinkly (-2 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 “crosscheck”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Crapo
Crapo
5,281 corpus weight
- crewneck
crewneck
5,279 corpus weight
- crinkly
crinkly
5,278 corpus weight
- crosscheck
crosscheck
5,276 corpus weight
- cryogenical…
cryogenically
5,273 corpus weight
- cryptospori…
cryptosporidium
5,272 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “crosscheck” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crosscheck |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #94,725 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “crosscheck” in English
Rare enough to double-check
crosscheck is uncommon English at frequency #94,725 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for crosscheck in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is crosscheck, spelled C-R-O-S-S-C-H-E-C-K.
Definition
- 1To verify (information, data, or calculations) by using an alternative source or method.
- 2To commit the infraction of checking an opponent by using the shaft of one's stick with both hands.
- 3To hit another player with the shaft of a lacrosse stick.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how crosscheck appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He picked up a roughing penalty for crosschecking Montreal’s Andrei Kostitsyn to the ice Tuesday after Kostitsyn hit Boston defenseman Aaron Ward from behind.
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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