driller
/ˈdɹɪlɚ/
"driller" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“driller” is uncommon English (frequency #62,854 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,854
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - One who drills.
Corpus desk
Index EN-driller · driller · English
driller · rank #62,854 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,854
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH Drouin
Nearest frequency peer: Drouin (+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 “driller”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- downloader
downloader
37,150 corpus weight
- Dravidian
Dravidian
37,149 corpus weight
- driller
driller
37,147 corpus weight
- Drouin
Drouin
37,146 corpus weight
- drumbeat
drumbeat
37,145 corpus weight
- dubbo
dubbo
37,144 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “driller” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | driller |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈdɹɪlɚ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #62,854 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “driller” in English
Rare enough to double-check
driller is uncommon English at frequency #62,854 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈdɹɪlɚ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for driller in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. 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 drill (verb) + -er. The correct English form is driller, spelled D-R-I-L-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1One who drills.
- 2A person in charge of a drilling rig.
Etymology
From drill (verb) + -er.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).