downriver
"downriver" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“downriver” is uncommon English (frequency #55,398 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,398
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Closer to the mouth of a river
Corpus desk
Index EN-downriver · downriver · English
downriver · rank #55,398 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,398
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH Dostoyevsky
Nearest frequency peer: Dostoyevsky (-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 “downriver”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
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44,610 corpus weight
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dissociate
44,607 corpus weight
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44,605 corpus weight
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44,604 corpus weight
- downriver
downriver
44,603 corpus weight
- dressmaker
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44,602 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “downriver” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | downriver |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #55,398 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “downriver” in English
Rare enough to double-check
downriver is uncommon English at frequency #55,398 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Closer to the mouth of a river".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for downriver, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From down- + river. The correct English form is downriver, spelled D-O-W-N-R-I-V-E-R.
Definition
- 1Closer to the mouth of a river
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how downriver appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
My house is downriver to his.
Etymology
From down- + river.
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).