driveshaft
"driveshaft" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“driveshaft” is uncommon English (frequency #77,619 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,619
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A shaft used to transmit rotary motion.
Corpus desk
Index EN-driveshaft · driveshaft · English
driveshaft · rank #77,619 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,619
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH dually
Nearest frequency peer: dually (+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 “driveshaft”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- doted
doted
22,388 corpus weight
- doy
doy
22,387 corpus weight
- driveshaft
driveshaft
22,382 corpus weight
- dually
dually
22,381 corpus weight
- Duolingo
Duolingo
22,379 corpus weight
- Duras
Duras
22,378 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “driveshaft” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | driveshaft |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #77,619 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “driveshaft” in English
Rare enough to double-check
driveshaft is uncommon English at frequency #77,619 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A shaft used to transmit rotary motion.".
driveshaft doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From drive + shaft. The correct English form is driveshaft, spelled D-R-I-V-E-S-H-A-F-T.
Definition
- 1A shaft used to transmit rotary motion.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how driveshaft appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The driveshaft of an automobile transfers power from the engine to the wheels.
A windmill transmits motion to the ground level via a vertical driveshaft, which operates a water pump.
Etymology
From drive + shaft.
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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