cultivator
"cultivator" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cultivator” is uncommon English (frequency #68,136 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,136
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Any of several devices used to loosen or stir the soil, either to remove weeds or to provide aeration and drainage.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cultivator · cultivator · English
cultivator · rank #68,136 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,136
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH curlew
Nearest frequency peer: curlew (+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 “cultivator”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- crisscross
crisscross
31,869 corpus weight
- crowdfunded
crowdfunded
31,868 corpus weight
- cultivator
cultivator
31,865 corpus weight
- curlew
curlew
31,864 corpus weight
- cytosolic
cytosolic
31,863 corpus weight
- debaters
debaters
31,861 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “cultivator” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cultivator |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #68,136 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “cultivator” in English
Rare enough to double-check
cultivator is uncommon English at frequency #68,136 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for cultivator, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From cultivate + -or, partly after French cultivateur. The correct English form is cultivator, spelled C-U-L-T-I-V-A-T-O-R.
Definition
- 1Any of several devices used to loosen or stir the soil, either to remove weeds or to provide aeration and drainage.
- 2A person who cultivates.
- 3A person who cultivates.
- 4A person who cultivates.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cultivator appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Near-synonyms: scarifier, scuffler (not always precisely differentiated; dialectal usage has varied)
As the crop gets bigger, the shank spacing on the cultivator will need to be adjusted accordingly.
Etymology
From cultivate + -or, partly after French cultivateur.
This word in other languages
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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