ontop
"ontop" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“ontop” is uncommon English (frequency #77,978 among 1,431 “O” headwords), classed as a preposition. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,978
- frequency rank, English
- 1,431
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Misspelling of on top.
Corpus desk
Index EN-ontop · ontop · English
ontop · rank #77,978 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,978
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,431
- PHOTO-FINISH oopsie
Nearest frequency peer: oopsie (+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 “ontop”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- objectivism
objectivism
22,030 corpus weight
- officiant
officiant
22,028 corpus weight
- Oklahoman
Oklahoman
22,026 corpus weight
- ontop
ontop
22,023 corpus weight
- oopsie
oopsie
22,022 corpus weight
- operculum
operculum
22,021 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “ontop” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ontop |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Preposition |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #77,978 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “ontop” in English
Rare enough to double-check
ontop is uncommon English at frequency #77,978 among 1,431 “O” headwords, classed as apreposition. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for ontop in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 ontop, spelled O-N-T-O-P.
Definition
- 1Misspelling of on top.
- 2atop.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ontop appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"[…] he wen' t'row da buggah right ovah da cleef too, ontop all da res'."
Senor Poochie at his feet, reclining like a Queen; and Nino eyeing them from ontop the table, her paws resting on an empty plate.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).