imitator
"imitator" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“imitator” is uncommon English (frequency #77,793 among 2,140 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,793
- frequency rank, English
- 2,140
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A person who imitates or apes another.
Corpus desk
Index EN-imitator · imitator · English
imitator · rank #77,793 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,793
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH imitative
Nearest frequency peer: imitative (-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 “imitator”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Illyria
Illyria
22,211 corpus weight
- imitative
imitative
22,209 corpus weight
- imitator
imitator
22,208 corpus weight
- incapacitat…
incapacitation
22,207 corpus weight
- incompressi…
incompressible
22,206 corpus weight
- infiltrator
infiltrator
22,204 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “imitator” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | imitator |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #77,793 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “imitator” in English
Rare enough to double-check
imitator is uncommon English at frequency #77,793 among 2,140 “I” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A person who imitates or apes another.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for imitator, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From French imitateur, derived from Latin imitātor, equivalent to imitate + -or. The correct English form is imitator, spelled I-M-I-T-A-T-O-R.
Definition
- 1A person who imitates or apes another.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how imitator appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Chalk it up to the government’s revelations in recent years about UFOs, or maybe just the pendulum swinging back, again, after “The X-Files” inspired a host of imitators in the 1990s.
Other far-right sites would gravitate to Epik. Among the first to announce its migration in early 2019 was BitChute, a YouTube imitator that had been blocked by PayPal.
Etymology
From French imitateur, derived from Latin imitātor, equivalent to imitate + -or.
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); 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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).