doubter
"doubter" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“doubter” is uncommon English (frequency #87,227 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,227
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - One who doubts.
Corpus desk
Index EN-doubter · doubter · English
doubter · rank #87,227 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,227
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH Dowson
Nearest frequency peer: Dowson (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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Long-tail ranks near “doubter”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- dissembling
dissembling
12,781 corpus weight
- doubter
doubter
12,774 corpus weight
- Dowson
Dowson
12,773 corpus weight
- Drac
Drac
12,772 corpus weight
- drafthouse
drafthouse
12,771 corpus weight
- Dubinsky
Dubinsky
12,768 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “doubter” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | doubter |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #87,227 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “doubter” in English
Rare enough to double-check
doubter is uncommon English at frequency #87,227 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "One who doubts.".
doubter doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From doubt + -er. The correct English form is doubter, spelled D-O-U-B-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1One who doubts.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how doubter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I have a great deal of sympathy with scientific doubters, and with those who test psychicism up hill and down dale and are not satisfied.
“Then it's true,” he said quietly. “Everything.” “Ay, thou doubter! Ay thou disbelieving dreg!”
Etymology
From doubt + -er.
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); 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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