downdraft
"downdraft" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“downdraft” is uncommon English (frequency #89,310 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,310
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A strong, downward air current; an air pocket or air hole.
Corpus desk
Index EN-downdraft · downdraft · English
downdraft · rank #89,310 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,310
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH downwardly
Nearest frequency peer: downwardly (+1 rank slots)
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.
Long-tail ranks near “downdraft”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- doujin
doujin
10,693 corpus weight
- downdraft
downdraft
10,691 corpus weight
- downwardly
downwardly
10,690 corpus weight
- dreamily
dreamily
10,689 corpus weight
- Ducasse
Ducasse
10,688 corpus weight
- dysmorphic
dysmorphic
10,684 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “downdraft” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | downdraft |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #89,310 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “downdraft” in English
Rare enough to double-check
downdraft is uncommon English at frequency #89,310 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A strong, downward air current; an air pocket or air hole.".
No misspelling variants are generated for downdraft in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From down- + draft. The correct English form is downdraft, spelled D-O-W-N-D-R-A-F-T.
Definition
- 1A strong, downward air current; an air pocket or air hole.
Etymology
From down- + draft.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).