humbucker
"humbucker" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“humbucker” is uncommon English (frequency #93,806 among 2,646 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,806
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A pickup, on an electric guitar, that has a pair of coils of reverse polarity connected in series in order to reduce buzzing noise caused by mains frequency.
Corpus desk
Index EN-humbucker · humbucker · English
humbucker · rank #93,806 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,806
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH huggy
Nearest frequency peer: huggy (-3 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 “humbucker”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- housebreaki…
housebreaking
6,202 corpus weight
- houseful
houseful
6,201 corpus weight
- howsoever
howsoever
6,200 corpus weight
- huggy
huggy
6,198 corpus weight
- humbucker
humbucker
6,195 corpus weight
- Hyogo
Hyogo
6,188 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “humbucker” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | humbucker |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #93,806 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “humbucker” in English
Rare enough to double-check
humbucker is uncommon English at frequency #93,806 among 2,646 “H” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A pickup, on an electric guitar, that has a pair of coils of reverse polarity connected in series in order to reduce buzzing noise caused by mains frequency.".
No misspelling variants are generated for humbucker in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From hum (“noise”) + buck (“resist, overcome”) + -er. The correct English form is humbucker, spelled H-U-M-B-U-C-K-E-R.
Definition
- 1A pickup, on an electric guitar, that has a pair of coils of reverse polarity connected in series in order to reduce buzzing noise caused by mains frequency.
Etymology
From hum (“noise”) + buck (“resist, overcome”) + -er.
Synonyms
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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