night watchman
"night-watchman" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“night watchman” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prior to police forces, a person appointed by a town or city to walk the streets at night and guard the burghers from felons and robbers.
Corpus desk
Index EN-night-watchman · night watchman · English
night watchman · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "N" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | night watchman |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “night watchman” in English
Rare enough to double-check
night watchman is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for night watchman in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 night watchman, spelled N-I-G-H-T- -W-A-T-C-H-M-A-N.
Definition
- 1Prior to police forces, a person appointed by a town or city to walk the streets at night and guard the burghers from felons and robbers.
- 2A person who guards (usually at a building) at night.
- 3A lower order batter to play the last overs in low light to save better batters for the next day's play.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how night watchman appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
We can hear the night watchman click his flashlight / Ask himself if it's him or them that's insane
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.