frontpage
"frontpage" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“frontpage” is uncommon English (frequency #57,396 among 18,613 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,396
- frequency rank, English
- 18,613
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Alternative spelling of front page.
| 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) |
Where “frontpage” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
frontpage is uncommon English at frequency #57,396 among 18,613 “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.
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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Using “frontpage”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is F-R-O-N-T-P-A-G-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.