faller
"faller" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“faller” is uncommon English (frequency #91,487 among 2,507 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,487
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - One who falls.
Corpus desk
Index EN-faller · faller · English
faller · rank #91,487 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,487
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH faired
Nearest frequency peer: faired (-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 “faller”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- extinguishm…
extinguishment
8,521 corpus weight
- eyeless
eyeless
8,520 corpus weight
- faired
faired
8,515 corpus weight
- faller
faller
8,514 corpus weight
- farro
farro
8,511 corpus weight
- feh
feh
8,508 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “faller” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | faller |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #91,487 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “faller” in English
Rare enough to double-check
faller is uncommon English at frequency #91,487 among 2,507 “F” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for faller in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From fall + -er. The correct English form is faller, spelled F-A-L-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1One who falls.
- 2A fruit that falls from the tree, rather than being picked.
- 3A part which acts by falling, such as a stamp in a fulling mill, or the device in a spinning machine to arrest motion when a thread breaks.
- 4Synonym of feller (“one who cuts down trees”).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how faller appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I've said that you girls on this side were not very whole-hearted fallers-in-love.
Most trippers and fallers I know fall forward, but it could have happened. He could have gone out for a midnight walk, he could have wanted to commune with the moon from the middle of the log, he could have tripped and fallen backward […]
Etymology
From fall + -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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).