description word

noun

"description-word" is a 15-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“description word” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
16
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An adjective.

Corpus desk

Index EN-description-word · description word · English

description word · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 16 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "D" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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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.

Key facts for description word
PropertyValue
Headworddescription word
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “description word” in English

description wordsits beyond the 100,000 most-frequent English words, in the long tail of technical, archaic, or otherwise rare vocabulary where spelling doubt tends to strike hardest.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

description word is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An adjective.".

description word has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is description word, spelled D-E-S-C-R-I-P-T-I-O-N- -W-O-R-D.

Definition

  1. 1
    An adjective.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how description word appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. They learn not just nouns, but description words (adjectives), action words (verbs), and others.
  2. Adjectives, or description words, are another way to turn a standard role or activity into something special.

Synonyms

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "description word"?
"description word" is spelled D-E-S-C-R-I-P-T-I-O-N- -W-O-R-D.
What does "description word" mean?
As a noun, "description word" means: An adjective.
What language does "description word" come from?
"description word" is a English word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list