devastator
/ˈdɛvəˌsteɪtə(ɹ)/
"devastator" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“devastator” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - one who devastates.
Corpus desk
Index EN-devastator · devastator · English
devastator · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "D" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | devastator |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈdɛvəˌsteɪtə(ɹ)/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “devastator” in English
Rare enough to double-check
devastator is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈdɛvəˌsteɪtə(ɹ)/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "one who devastates.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for devastator, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is devastator, spelled D-E-V-A-S-T-A-T-O-R.
Definition
- 1one who devastates.
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.