floodwater
"floodwater" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“floodwater” is uncommon English (frequency #73,189 among 2,507 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,189
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The water of a flood.
Corpus desk
Index EN-floodwater · floodwater · English
floodwater · rank #73,189 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,189
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH fleshlight
Nearest frequency peer: fleshlight (-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 “floodwater”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- flagstone
flagstone
26,816 corpus weight
- Flavin
Flavin
26,815 corpus weight
- fleshlight
fleshlight
26,813 corpus weight
- floodwater
floodwater
26,812 corpus weight
- flouting
flouting
26,811 corpus weight
- flowy
flowy
26,810 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “floodwater” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | floodwater |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #73,189 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “floodwater” in English
Rare enough to double-check
floodwater is uncommon English at frequency #73,189 among 2,507 “F” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The water of a flood.".
No misspelling variants are generated for floodwater in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From flood + water. The correct English form is floodwater, spelled F-L-O-O-D-W-A-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1The water of a flood.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how floodwater appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.
South Yorkshire 2019: The track at Conisbrough is deluged by floodwater. Lines were shut and services were disrupted across Yorkshire and the East Midlands.
Etymology
From flood + water.
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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