crossroad
"crossroad" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“crossroad” is uncommon English (frequency #54,101 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,101
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A crossroads (place where one road crosses another).
Corpus desk
Index EN-crossroad · crossroad · English
crossroad · rank #54,101 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,101
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH croton
Nearest frequency peer: croton (+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 “crossroad”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- cordillera
cordillera
45,908 corpus weight
- Crabbe
Crabbe
45,906 corpus weight
- crossroad
crossroad
45,900 corpus weight
- croton
croton
45,899 corpus weight
- Daegu
Daegu
45,895 corpus weight
- dampness
dampness
45,893 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “crossroad” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crossroad |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #54,101 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “crossroad” in English
Rare enough to double-check
crossroad is uncommon English at frequency #54,101 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
crossroad has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From cross + road. The correct English form is crossroad, spelled C-R-O-S-S-R-O-A-D.
Definition
- 1A crossroads (place where one road crosses another).
- 2A road that crosses another.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how crossroad appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Finally, at a likely looking north-south crossroad, we turned left and found elusive US 14 two miles north.
Etymology
From cross + road.
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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).