laundress
"laundress" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“laundress” is uncommon English (frequency #93,905 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,905
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Synonym of washerwoman.
Corpus desk
Index EN-laundress · laundress · English
laundress · rank #93,905 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,905
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH Lawry
Nearest frequency peer: Lawry (+2 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 “laundress”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Lalonde
Lalonde
6,104 corpus weight
- Laplacian
Laplacian
6,099 corpus weight
- laundress
laundress
6,096 corpus weight
- Lawry
Lawry
6,094 corpus weight
- Leb
Leb
6,091 corpus weight
- levodopa
levodopa
6,088 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “laundress” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | laundress |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #93,905 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “laundress” in English
Rare enough to double-check
laundress is uncommon English at frequency #93,905 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Synonym of washerwoman.".
laundress doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From launderer + -ess. The correct English form is laundress, spelled L-A-U-N-D-R-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1Synonym of washerwoman.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how laundress appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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Etymology
From launderer + -ess.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).