draught excluder
"draught-excluder" is a 15-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“draught excluder” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A flexible strip attached to the bottom or side of a door to prevent draughts entering through the gap.
Corpus desk
Index EN-draught-excluder · draught excluder · English
draught excluder · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 16 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "D" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | draught excluder |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “draught excluder” in English
Rare enough to double-check
draught excluder is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for draught excluder in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is draught excluder, spelled D-R-A-U-G-H-T- -E-X-C-L-U-D-E-R.
Definition
- 1A flexible strip attached to the bottom or side of a door to prevent draughts entering through the gap.
- 2Any other object used to prevent draughts, such as a chimney balloon.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how draught excluder appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The sliding door, which is fitted with a drop light, is shrouded with bristle-type draught excluders.
Each coach is insulated by a four-inch thickness of fibreglass and heated by two overhead 2 in. steam pipes, while all external doors close into rubber draught excluders.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.