great northern diver
"great-northern-diver" is a 18-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“great northern diver” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A large member of the diver family, Gavia immer, commonly breeding in North America, where it is known as the as common loon.
Corpus desk
Index EN-great-northern-diver · great northern diver · English
great northern diver · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 20 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "G" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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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 | great northern diver |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “great northern diver” in English
Rare enough to double-check
great northern diver is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A large member of the diver family, Gavia immer, commonly breeding in North America, where it is known as the as common loon.".
Zero misspellings are on record for great northern diver in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From the fact that the species is a diver, the largest or greatest of those regularly found off the British Isles, which has a very northerly range (no further south than the British Isles). The correct English form is great northern diver, spelled G-R-E-A-T- -N-O-R-T-H-E-R-N- -D-I-V-E-R.
Definition
- 1A large member of the diver family, Gavia immer, commonly breeding in North America, where it is known as the as common loon.
Etymology
From the fact that the species is a diver, the largest or greatest of those regularly found off the British Isles, which has a very northerly range (no further south than the British Isles).
Synonyms
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.