drumline
"drumline" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“drumline” is uncommon English (frequency #80,402 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,402
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A group of percussionists in a marching band, consisting of the battery and front ensemble.
Corpus desk
Index EN-drumline · drumline · English
drumline · rank #80,402 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,402
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH drownings
Nearest frequency peer: drownings (-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 “drumline”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
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19,603 corpus weight
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19,602 corpus weight
- drownings
drownings
19,600 corpus weight
- drumline
drumline
19,599 corpus weight
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19,598 corpus weight
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19,597 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “drumline” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | drumline |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #80,402 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “drumline” in English
Rare enough to double-check
drumline is uncommon English at frequency #80,402 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A group of percussionists in a marching band, consisting of the battery and front ensemble.".
Zero misspellings are on record for drumline in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. 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: From drum + line. The correct English form is drumline, spelled D-R-U-M-L-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1A group of percussionists in a marching band, consisting of the battery and front ensemble.
Etymology
From drum + line.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).