frontpage
"frontpage" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“frontpage” is uncommon English (frequency #57,396 among 2,507 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,396
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative spelling of front page.
Corpus desk
Index EN-frontpage · frontpage · English
frontpage · rank #57,396 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,396
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH Fron
Nearest frequency peer: Fron (-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 “frontpage”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- fosse
fosse
42,608 corpus weight
- freemason
freemason
42,607 corpus weight
- Fron
Fron
42,606 corpus weight
- frontpage
frontpage
42,605 corpus weight
- frum
frum
42,604 corpus weight
- fundraise
fundraise
42,602 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “frontpage” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | frontpage |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #57,396 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “frontpage” in English
Rare enough to double-check
frontpage is uncommon English at frequency #57,396 among 2,507 “F” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative spelling of front page.".
No misspelling variants are generated for frontpage in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is frontpage, spelled F-R-O-N-T-P-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Alternative spelling of front page.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how frontpage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Each frontpage of the Chronicle of Current Events featured Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, guaranteeing freedom of opinion and expression; the frontpage of the samizdat journal of the labor activists in Gdańsk, The Worker of the Coast, featured articles 2 and 3 of the International Labor Organization's convention no. 87, guarantee…
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).