everclear
"everclear" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“everclear” is uncommon English (frequency #81,309 among 2,246 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,309
- frequency rank, English
- 2,246
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Any home-brewed distilled grain alcohol, especially one with a very high concentration of alcohol (such as 90-some percent, that is, 180-some proof); but generally not one rife with impurities or a...
Corpus desk
Index EN-everclear · everclear · English
everclear · rank #81,309 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,309
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,246
- PHOTO-FINISH Essien
Nearest frequency peer: Essien (-2 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 “everclear”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- epochal
epochal
18,697 corpus weight
- Essien
Essien
18,694 corpus weight
- everclear
everclear
18,692 corpus weight
- facultative
facultative
18,687 corpus weight
- Fairlie
Fairlie
18,686 corpus weight
- Fajardo
Fajardo
18,685 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “everclear” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | everclear |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #81,309 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “everclear” in English
Rare enough to double-check
everclear is uncommon English at frequency #81,309 among 2,246 “E” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Any home-brewed distilled grain alcohol, especially one with a very high concentration of alcohol (such as 90-some percent, that is, 180-some proof); but generally not one rife with impurities or a...".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for everclear, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From a brand name, from ever + clear. The correct English form is everclear, spelled E-V-E-R-C-L-E-A-R.
Definition
- 1Any home-brewed distilled grain alcohol, especially one with a very high concentration of alcohol (such as 90-some percent, that is, 180-some proof); but generally not one rife with impurities or adulterants.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how everclear appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Near-synonyms: white lightning, moonshine, mountain dew; rectified spirit, neutral spirit, neutral alcohol
Etymology
From a brand name, from ever + clear.
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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