dropdown
"dropdown" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“dropdown” is uncommon English (frequency #75,819 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,819
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dropping down from above; being a specific type of selection control that hides its contents until activated.
Corpus desk
Index EN-dropdown · dropdown · English
dropdown · rank #75,819 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,819
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH dreamscape
Nearest frequency peer: dreamscape (-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 “dropdown”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- doughboy
doughboy
24,186 corpus weight
- dramedy
dramedy
24,185 corpus weight
- dreamscape
dreamscape
24,183 corpus weight
- dropdown
dropdown
24,182 corpus weight
- Drusilla
Drusilla
24,181 corpus weight
- Ducey
Ducey
24,179 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “dropdown” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dropdown |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #75,819 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “dropdown” in English
Rare enough to double-check
dropdown is uncommon English at frequency #75,819 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Dropping down from above; being a specific type of selection control that hides its contents until activated.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for dropdown, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: Deverbal from drop down. The correct English form is dropdown, spelled D-R-O-P-D-O-W-N.
Definition
- 1Dropping down from above; being a specific type of selection control that hides its contents until activated.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dropdown appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Click the Colours button on the toolbar to show a dropdown menu of available colours.
Etymology
Deverbal from drop down.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).