diplomate
"diplomate" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“diplomate” is uncommon English (frequency #99,182 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,182
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A professional who has earned a diploma.
Corpus desk
Index EN-diplomate · diplomate · English
diplomate · rank #99,182 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,182
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH disapprovingly
Nearest frequency peer: disapprovingly (+1 rank slots)
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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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “diplomate”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
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dickwad
822 corpus weight
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dilator
821 corpus weight
- diplomate
diplomate
819 corpus weight
- disapprovin…
disapprovingly
818 corpus weight
- disempowered
disempowered
817 corpus weight
- disrobe
disrobe
816 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “diplomate” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | diplomate |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #99,182 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “diplomate” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
diplomate is uncommon English at frequency #99,182 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A professional who has earned a diploma.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for diplomate, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From diploma + -ate (suffix forming nouns denoting rank or office). The correct English form is diplomate, spelled D-I-P-L-O-M-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1A professional who has earned a diploma.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how diplomate appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
You think he could barter and cheat / As vulgar diplomates use, / With the people's heart in his breast?
Etymology
From diploma + -ate (suffix forming nouns denoting rank or office).
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 9 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.