harmer
"harmer" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“harmer” is uncommon English (frequency #64,417 among 2,646 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,417
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - One who harms.
Corpus desk
Index EN-harmer · harmer · English
harmer · rank #64,417 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,417
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH Hartland
Nearest frequency peer: Hartland (+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 “harmer”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- groupthink
groupthink
35,587 corpus weight
- harmer
harmer
35,584 corpus weight
- Hartland
Hartland
35,583 corpus weight
- hemolytic
hemolytic
35,582 corpus weight
- heptathlon
heptathlon
35,581 corpus weight
- heterodox
heterodox
35,579 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “harmer” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | harmer |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #64,417 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “harmer” in English
Rare enough to double-check
harmer is uncommon English at frequency #64,417 among 2,646 “H” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "One who harms.".
No misspelling variants are generated for harmer in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From harm + -er. The correct English form is harmer, spelled H-A-R-M-E-R.
Definition
- 1One who harms.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how harmer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Turning to the post-Beowulf Cynewulfian poems, one notes the same duality between spiritual and natural "harmers" in the use of the word.
And if the rich succeed in using the surplus, they would also be the first harmers because the poor are thereby made worse off.
Etymology
From harm + -er.
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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