graveside
"graveside" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“graveside” is uncommon English (frequency #74,132 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,132
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The area immediately around a grave.
Corpus desk
Index EN-graveside · graveside · English
graveside · rank #74,132 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,132
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH graviton
Nearest frequency peer: graviton (+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 “graveside”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Golgotha
Golgotha
25,873 corpus weight
- Gordian
Gordian
25,872 corpus weight
- gouges
gouges
25,871 corpus weight
- graveside
graveside
25,869 corpus weight
- graviton
graviton
25,868 corpus weight
- grebe
grebe
25,867 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “graveside” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | graveside |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #74,132 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “graveside” in English
Rare enough to double-check
graveside is uncommon English at frequency #74,132 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The area immediately around a grave.".
Zero misspellings are on record for graveside in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From grave + -side. The correct English form is graveside, spelled G-R-A-V-E-S-I-D-E.
Definition
- 1The area immediately around a grave.
Etymology
From grave + -side.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).