parachutist
"parachutist" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“parachutist” is uncommon English (frequency #95,239 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,239
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Someone who jumps from an aircraft using a parachute, especially as a sport.
Corpus desk
Index EN-parachutist · parachutist · English
parachutist · rank #95,239 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,239
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH parodic
Nearest frequency peer: parodic (+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 “parachutist”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- panegyric
panegyric
4,765 corpus weight
- pannier
pannier
4,764 corpus weight
- parachutist
parachutist
4,762 corpus weight
- parodic
parodic
4,761 corpus weight
- Paros
Paros
4,760 corpus weight
- particulary
particulary
4,759 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “parachutist” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | parachutist |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #95,239 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “parachutist” in English
Rare enough to double-check
parachutist is uncommon English at frequency #95,239 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Someone who jumps from an aircraft using a parachute, especially as a sport.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for parachutist, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From parachute + -ist. The correct English form is parachutist, spelled P-A-R-A-C-H-U-T-I-S-T.
Definition
- 1Someone who jumps from an aircraft using a parachute, especially as a sport.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how parachutist appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
If any of the extreme sports can be considered truly high risk, then B.A.S.E. Jumping is that sport. […] Modern B.A.S.E. jumping is believed to have started in 1978, where daring parachutists first began jumping off of El Capitan, a 3,000 foot (915m) cliff high above Yosemite National Park.
I waited and he came to the point: he wanted me simply to talk to a patient he had inherited, a sports parachutist who had Roman Candled into a tree and broken and disarticulated his back.
Etymology
From parachute + -ist.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).