farmworker

noun

"farmworker" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“farmworker” is uncommon English (frequency #97,019 among 2,507 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#97,019
frequency rank, English
2,507
“F” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A person who works on a farm, especially a hired hand.

Corpus desk

Index EN-farmworker · farmworker · English

farmworker · rank #97,019 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #97,019
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,507
  • PHOTO-FINISH fanfest

Nearest frequency peer: fanfest (-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 “farmworker”

Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter

corpus weight

What this shows Long-tail view: where “farmworker” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for farmworker
PropertyValue
Headwordfarmworker
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters10
Frequency rank#97,019
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “farmworker” in English

Word frequency stretches from the small set of words we reach for constantly (left) out to the long tail barely used once in a while (right).farmworkerfalls in this rarity band:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
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Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Rare peers in the same band: “fanfest” (#97,018), “feints” (#97,021), “fagot” (#97,015). Among 2,507 “F” headwords, “farmworker” is #97,019. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

farmworker is uncommon English at frequency #97,019 among 2,507 “F” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A person who works on a farm, especially a hired hand.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for farmworker, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

Etymologically, the entry records: From farm + worker. The correct English form is farmworker, spelled F-A-R-M-W-O-R-K-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    A person who works on a farm, especially a hired hand.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how farmworker appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Though American legislators renewed restrictive immigration policies in the two decades after the war, they allowed employers of farmworkers to import some 4.5 million Mexican "braceros" and Caribbean "offshores," as the workers were called.
  2. Congress ended the bracero program in 1964, and the next 15 years were the salad days, as it were, for farmworkers

Etymology

From farm + worker.

Synonyms

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "farmworker"?
"farmworker" is spelled F-A-R-M-W-O-R-K-E-R.
What does "farmworker" mean?
As a noun, "farmworker" means: A person who works on a farm, especially a hired hand.
What is the origin of the word "farmworker"?
From farm + worker. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Similar English words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "farmworker", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list