paperboy
"paperboy" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“paperboy” is uncommon English (frequency #74,376 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,376
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A boy who delivers newspapers to houses on a paper round.
Corpus desk
Index EN-paperboy · paperboy · English
paperboy · rank #74,376 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,376
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH palpably
Nearest frequency peer: palpably (-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 “paperboy”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- outdoorsman
outdoorsman
25,629 corpus weight
- owt
owt
25,627 corpus weight
- palpably
palpably
25,626 corpus weight
- paperboy
paperboy
25,625 corpus weight
- pastorate
pastorate
25,623 corpus weight
- peacefulness
peacefulness
25,620 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “paperboy” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | paperboy |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #74,376 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “paperboy” in English
Rare enough to double-check
paperboy is uncommon English at frequency #74,376 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A boy who delivers newspapers to houses on a paper round.".
paperboy doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: From paper + boy. The correct English form is paperboy, spelled P-A-P-E-R-B-O-Y.
Definition
- 1A boy who delivers newspapers to houses on a paper round.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how paperboy appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Our current paperboy does a nicely consistent job of throwing the paper onto the porch. Our old paperboy sometimes would fling it into the bushes!
Etymology
From paper + boy.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).