klansman
"klansman" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“klansman” is uncommon English (frequency #91,700 among 1,236 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,700
- frequency rank, English
- 1,236
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative letter-case form of Klansman.
Corpus desk
Index EN-klansman · klansman · English
klansman · rank #91,700 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,700
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,236
- PHOTO-FINISH kie
Nearest frequency peer: kie (-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 “klansman”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Kenrick
Kenrick
8,309 corpus weight
- Khwaja
Khwaja
8,305 corpus weight
- kie
kie
8,302 corpus weight
- klansman
klansman
8,301 corpus weight
- Koivu
Koivu
8,298 corpus weight
- Krane
Krane
8,294 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “klansman” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | klansman |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #91,700 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “klansman” in English
Rare enough to double-check
klansman is uncommon English at frequency #91,700 among 1,236 “K” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative letter-case form of Klansman.".
klansman has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is klansman, spelled K-L-A-N-S-M-A-N.
Definition
- 1Alternative letter-case form of Klansman.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how klansman appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Klansmen — Behold the Deed without a name
The fact that nobody foresaw that Chill would blossom into a klansman does not alter the fact that the klansman is one of the flowers of our democracy.
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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