multiyear
"multiyear" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“multiyear” is uncommon English (frequency #63,096 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,096
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Having a duration of multiple years.
Corpus desk
Index EN-multiyear · multiyear · English
multiyear · rank #63,096 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,096
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH mth
Nearest frequency peer: mth (-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 “multiyear”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Moy
Moy
36,908 corpus weight
- MSFT
MSFT
36,907 corpus weight
- mth
mth
36,906 corpus weight
- multiyear
multiyear
36,905 corpus weight
- Nabisco
Nabisco
36,904 corpus weight
- Nephi
Nephi
36,902 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “multiyear” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | multiyear |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #63,096 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “multiyear” in English
Rare enough to double-check
multiyear is uncommon English at frequency #63,096 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Having a duration of multiple years.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for multiyear in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From multi- + year. The correct English form is multiyear, spelled M-U-L-T-I-Y-E-A-R.
Definition
- 1Having a duration of multiple years.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how multiyear appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
We first discuss a multiyear study on Soay sheep (Ovis aries) and red deer (Cervus elaphus) that has successfully yielded a sophisticated understanding of population regulation (Clutton-Brock et al., 1997).
Her mother favored a multiyear project: obscenities carved in intricate and clever juxtapositions, descending every finger, curling in lettered whorls across the palm, fanning in offensive rays across the opisthenar, which is the name for the back of the hand, a word that Leilani knew because she had studied the structure of the human hand in detail, the…
Etymology
From multi- + year.
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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