downrange
"downrange" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“downrange” is uncommon English (frequency #90,380 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,380
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - In the horizontal direction away from the launch site of a rocket or projectile in the direction of its travel.
Corpus desk
Index EN-downrange · downrange · English
downrange · rank #90,380 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,380
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH doublespeak
Nearest frequency peer: doublespeak (-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 “downrange”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Diyala
Diyala
9,627 corpus weight
- Doheny
Doheny
9,625 corpus weight
- doublespeak
doublespeak
9,622 corpus weight
- downrange
downrange
9,621 corpus weight
- dragster
dragster
9,617 corpus weight
- drainpipe
drainpipe
9,616 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “downrange” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | downrange |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #90,380 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “downrange” in English
Rare enough to double-check
downrange is uncommon English at frequency #90,380 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "In the horizontal direction away from the launch site of a rocket or projectile in the direction of its travel.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for downrange, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From down + range. The correct English form is downrange, spelled D-O-W-N-R-A-N-G-E.
Definition
- 1In the horizontal direction away from the launch site of a rocket or projectile in the direction of its travel.
Etymology
From down + range.
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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