dressmaker
/ˈdɹɛsˌmeɪkɚ/
"dressmaker" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“dressmaker” is uncommon English (frequency #55,399 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,399
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A person who makes tailor-made women's clothes.
Corpus desk
Index EN-dressmaker · dressmaker · English
dressmaker · rank #55,399 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,399
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH downriver
Nearest frequency peer: downriver (-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 “dressmaker”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- dissociate
dissociate
44,607 corpus weight
- dormancy
dormancy
44,605 corpus weight
- Dostoyevsky
Dostoyevsky
44,604 corpus weight
- downriver
downriver
44,603 corpus weight
- dressmaker
dressmaker
44,602 corpus weight
- ECF
ECF
44,595 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “dressmaker” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dressmaker |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈdɹɛsˌmeɪkɚ/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #55,399 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “dressmaker” in English
Rare enough to double-check
dressmaker is uncommon English at frequency #55,399 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈdɹɛsˌmeɪkɚ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A person who makes tailor-made women's clothes.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for dressmaker, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From dress + maker. The correct English form is dressmaker, spelled D-R-E-S-S-M-A-K-E-R.
Definition
- 1A person who makes tailor-made women's clothes.
Etymology
From dress + maker.
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); 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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