farmworker
"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
- faff
faff
2,987 corpus weight
- fagot
fagot
2,986 corpus weight
- fanfest
fanfest
2,983 corpus weight
- farmworker
farmworker
2,982 corpus weight
- feints
feints
2,980 corpus weight
- fettle
fettle
2,978 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “farmworker” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | farmworker |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #97,019 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “farmworker” in English
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
- 1A person who works on a farm, especially a hired hand.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how farmworker appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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.
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