fare dodger
"fare-dodger" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“fare dodger” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A person who deliberately avoids payment for public transport.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fare dodger |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “fare dodger” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
fare dodger is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A person who deliberately avoids payment for public transport.".
fare dodger has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is fare dodger, spelled F-A-R-E- -D-O-D-G-E-R.
Definition
- 1A person who deliberately avoids payment for public transport.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “fare dodger”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is F-A-R-E- -D-O-D-G-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.