crowdsourced
"crowdsourced" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“crowdsourced” is uncommon English (frequency #62,809 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,809
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Obtained by crowdsourcing.
Corpus desk
Index EN-crowdsourced · crowdsourced · English
crowdsourced · rank #62,809 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,809
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH creaky
Nearest frequency peer: creaky (-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 “crowdsourced”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Cowdenbeath
Cowdenbeath
37,196 corpus weight
- creaky
creaky
37,193 corpus weight
- crowdsourced
crowdsourced
37,192 corpus weight
- crystallize
crystallize
37,191 corpus weight
- CSB
CSB
37,190 corpus weight
- cunningly
cunningly
37,188 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “crowdsourced” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crowdsourced |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #62,809 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “crowdsourced” in English
Rare enough to double-check
crowdsourced is uncommon English at frequency #62,809 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Obtained by crowdsourcing.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for crowdsourced, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From crowd + sourced. The correct English form is crowdsourced, spelled C-R-O-W-D-S-O-U-R-C-E-D.
Definition
- 1Obtained by crowdsourcing.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how crowdsourced appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The movement took on its modern form as it grew together with hackerspaces, crowdsourced science projects and online forums.
His desire to shed light on the proliferation of license plate readers in his neighborhood in Huntsville, Ala., this year spurred an idea for a crowdsourced database where people across the world can upload the locations of the readers.
Etymology
From crowd + sourced.
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).