crosscountry
"crosscountry" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“crosscountry” is uncommon English (frequency #86,181 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,181
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative form of cross-country.
Corpus desk
Index EN-crosscountry · crosscountry · English
crosscountry · rank #86,181 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,181
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH crèche
Nearest frequency peer: crèche (+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 “crosscountry”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Crespi
Crespi
13,825 corpus weight
- cribbage
cribbage
13,824 corpus weight
- Critchley
Critchley
13,822 corpus weight
- crosscountry
crosscountry
13,820 corpus weight
- crèche
crèche
13,819 corpus weight
- cyclophosph…
cyclophosphamide
13,813 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “crosscountry” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crosscountry |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #86,181 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “crosscountry” in English
Rare enough to double-check
crosscountry is uncommon English at frequency #86,181 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative form of cross-country.".
crosscountry doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is crosscountry, spelled C-R-O-S-S-C-O-U-N-T-R-Y.
Definition
- 1Alternative form of cross-country.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how crosscountry appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Editor John Torinus could enlighten us on wineology, crosscountry skiing, sailing and the joys and pains of being an editor.
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 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).