newscaster
"newscaster" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“newscaster” is uncommon English (frequency #51,874 among 1,534 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,874
- frequency rank, English
- 1,534
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - One who delivers the news for broadcast on television, radio, etc; a newsreader.
Corpus desk
Index EN-newscaster · newscaster · English
newscaster · rank #51,874 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,874
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,534
- PHOTO-FINISH Nevin
Nearest frequency peer: Nevin (-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 “newscaster”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- nasri
nasri
48,132 corpus weight
- nen
nen
48,130 corpus weight
- Nevin
Nevin
48,128 corpus weight
- newscaster
newscaster
48,127 corpus weight
- newsprint
newsprint
48,126 corpus weight
- Nikhil
Nikhil
48,122 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “newscaster” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | newscaster |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #51,874 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “newscaster” in English
Rare enough to double-check
newscaster is uncommon English at frequency #51,874 among 1,534 “N” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "One who delivers the news for broadcast on television, radio, etc; a newsreader.".
Zero misspellings are on record for newscaster in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From newscast + -er. The correct English form is newscaster, spelled N-E-W-S-C-A-S-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1One who delivers the news for broadcast on television, radio, etc; a newsreader.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how newscaster appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Take Linda, a thirty-nine-year-old newscaster who relished her career but began to hear the alarm ringing on her biological clock.
Yet, a few US newscasters will go on the air at 6 pm or later and say, "Moscow said tonight.["] ... A careful writer would make his script read, "Moscow said today. ..."
Etymology
From newscast + -er.
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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