MetroCard
"metrocard" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“MetroCard” is uncommon English (frequency #93,990 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,990
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A thin card with a magnetic stripe used to pay fares on New York City mass transit.
Corpus desk
Index EN-metrocard · MetroCard · English
MetroCard · rank #93,990 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,990
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH metastasize
Nearest frequency peer: metastasize (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “MetroCard”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Melfi
Melfi
6,018 corpus weight
- merkin
merkin
6,016 corpus weight
- metastasize
metastasize
6,013 corpus weight
- MetroCard
MetroCard
6,011 corpus weight
- midsized
midsized
6,005 corpus weight
- militantly
militantly
6,004 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “MetroCard” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | MetroCard |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #93,990 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “MetroCard” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
MetroCard is uncommon English at frequency #93,990 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A thin card with a magnetic stripe used to pay fares on New York City mass transit.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for MetroCard in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From metro + card. The correct English form is MetroCard, spelled M-E-T-R-O-C-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1A thin card with a magnetic stripe used to pay fares on New York City mass transit.
Etymology
From metro + card.
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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.