distraint
"distraint" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“distraint” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The legal right of a landlord to seize the property of a tenant in the event of nonpayment of rent.
Corpus desk
Index EN-distraint · distraint · English
distraint · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | distraint |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “distraint” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
distraint is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The legal right of a landlord to seize the property of a tenant in the event of nonpayment of rent.".
distraint doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From distrain, on the model of such pairs as constrain, constraint and restrain, restraint. The correct English form is distraint, spelled D-I-S-T-R-A-I-N-T.
Definition
- 1The legal right of a landlord to seize the property of a tenant in the event of nonpayment of rent.
Etymology
From distrain, on the model of such pairs as constrain, constraint and restrain, restraint.
This word in other languages
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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