paintwork
"paintwork" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“paintwork” is uncommon English (frequency #70,987 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,987
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The painted surface of a car, building, etc.
Corpus desk
Index EN-paintwork · paintwork · English
paintwork · rank #70,987 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,987
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH pagination
Nearest frequency peer: pagination (-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 “paintwork”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- overexposed
overexposed
29,019 corpus weight
- overqualifi…
overqualified
29,018 corpus weight
- pagination
pagination
29,015 corpus weight
- paintwork
paintwork
29,014 corpus weight
- pantries
pantries
29,012 corpus weight
- parishad
parishad
29,009 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “paintwork” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | paintwork |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #70,987 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “paintwork” in English
Rare enough to double-check
paintwork is uncommon English at frequency #70,987 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The painted surface of a car, building, etc.".
paintwork doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From paint + work. The correct English form is paintwork, spelled P-A-I-N-T-W-O-R-K.
Definition
- 1The painted surface of a car, building, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how paintwork appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The interior colour scheme departs from the conventional L.T. red and green upholstery and matching paintwork, which has been replaced by a maroon and grey moquette with dove grey paint below the waist rail.
At night, some nap on their stretchers. High up on a wall, stuck to peeling paintwork, are photographs of eight drivers killed in service.
Etymology
From paint + work.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).