data breach
"data-breach" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“data breach” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A successful cyberattack to obtain sensitive data.
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Browse all word comparisons →| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | data breach |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “data breach” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for data breach is 11 letters long, classified as a noun. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "A successful cyberattack to obtain sensitive data.".
No misspelling variants are generated for data breach 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.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is data breach, spelled D-A-T-A- -B-R-E-A-C-H, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1A successful cyberattack to obtain sensitive data.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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PlainSpell, “data breach, English word data” (May 6, 2026). Derived from Wiktionary (kaikki.org, CC BY-SA) and an open word-frequency list. https://plainspell.com/en/word/data-breach
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- The one correct English spelling is D-A-T-A- -B-R-E-A-C-H - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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