founding member
"founding-member" is a 14-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“founding member” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A member of an organization that was involved in, or whose membership commenced with, the organization's foundation.
Corpus desk
Index EN-founding-member · founding member · English
founding member · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "F" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | founding member |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “founding member” in English
Rare enough to double-check
founding member is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A member of an organization that was involved in, or whose membership commenced with, the organization's foundation.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for founding member in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is founding member, spelled F-O-U-N-D-I-N-G- -M-E-M-B-E-R.
Definition
- 1A member of an organization that was involved in, or whose membership commenced with, the organization's foundation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how founding member appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The United Nations had 77 founding members.
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.