cyberman
"cyberman" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cyberman” is uncommon English (frequency #95,870 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,870
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A human intertwined with electronic components; often implies the result is more electronic than biological.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cyberman · cyberman · English
cyberman · rank #95,870 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,870
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH Culley
Nearest frequency peer: Culley (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “cyberman”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
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creekside
4,137 corpus weight
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cruden
4,136 corpus weight
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cuckolding
4,134 corpus weight
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Culley
4,133 corpus weight
- cyberman
cyberman
4,131 corpus weight
- dacron
dacron
4,129 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “cyberman” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cyberman |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #95,870 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cyberman” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
cyberman is uncommon English at frequency #95,870 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A human intertwined with electronic components; often implies the result is more electronic than biological.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for cyberman in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Blend of cybernetic + man, analyzable as cyber- + man. Originally a race of extraterrestrial enemies in the long-running British television series Doctor Who, first appearing in the 1966 serial The Tenth Planet. The correct English form is cyberman, spelled C-Y-B-E-R-M-A-N.
Definition
- 1A human intertwined with electronic components; often implies the result is more electronic than biological.
Etymology
Blend of cybernetic + man, analyzable as cyber- + man. Originally a race of extraterrestrial enemies in the long-running British television series Doctor Who, first appearing in the 1966 serial The Tenth Planet.
Synonyms
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.