downtrend
"downtrend" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“downtrend” is uncommon English (frequency #76,730 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,730
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Any gradual movement towards a lower state or value.
Corpus desk
Index EN-downtrend · downtrend · English
downtrend · rank #76,730 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,730
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH Doulton
Nearest frequency peer: Doulton (-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 “downtrend”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Dobrev
Dobrev
23,277 corpus weight
- doit
doit
23,275 corpus weight
- Doulton
Doulton
23,272 corpus weight
- downtrend
downtrend
23,271 corpus weight
- DRL
DRL
23,269 corpus weight
- drubbing
drubbing
23,267 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “downtrend” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | downtrend |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #76,730 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “downtrend” in English
Rare enough to double-check
downtrend is uncommon English at frequency #76,730 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Any gradual movement towards a lower state or value.".
downtrend has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From down- + trend. The correct English form is downtrend, spelled D-O-W-N-T-R-E-N-D.
Definition
- 1Any gradual movement towards a lower state or value.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how downtrend appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The stock market took a long time to recover from the downtrend.
Etymology
From down- + trend.
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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