Native American
"native-american" is a 14-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Native American” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A member of some Indigenous peoples of the Americas.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Native American |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Native American” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Native American is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Native American, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is Native American, spelled N-A-T-I-V-E- -A-M-E-R-I-C-A-N.
Definition
- 1A member of some Indigenous peoples of the Americas.
- 2An Indigenous person of the contiguous United States.
- 3A resident of the United States who is not an immigrant. (Often uncapitalized: native American.)
Synonyms
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Native American”
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- The one correct English spelling is N-A-T-I-V-E- -A-M-E-R-I-C-A-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.