minesweeper
/ˈmaɪnˌswipɚ/
"minesweeper" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“minesweeper” is uncommon English (frequency #67,651 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,651
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A vehicle, device or person with the purpose of removing explosive mines (landmines or water mines).
Corpus desk
Index EN-minesweeper · minesweeper · English
minesweeper · rank #67,651 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,651
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH Minnetonka
Nearest frequency peer: Minnetonka (+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 “minesweeper”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Michaelmas
Michaelmas
32,356 corpus weight
- microRNA
microRNA
32,355 corpus weight
- midyear
midyear
32,353 corpus weight
- minesweeper
minesweeper
32,350 corpus weight
- Minnetonka
Minnetonka
32,349 corpus weight
- miscegenati…
miscegenation
32,348 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “minesweeper” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | minesweeper |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈmaɪnˌswipɚ/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #67,651 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “minesweeper” in English
Rare enough to double-check
minesweeper is uncommon English at frequency #67,651 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈmaɪnˌswipɚ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for minesweeper, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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 mine + sweeper. The correct English form is minesweeper, spelled M-I-N-E-S-W-E-E-P-E-R.
Definition
- 1A vehicle, device or person with the purpose of removing explosive mines (landmines or water mines).
- 2A logic-based computer game in which the player has to discover the position of mines in a rectangular grid, based on numerical hints.
Etymology
From mine + sweeper.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).