pastoress
"pastoress" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“pastoress” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A female pastor (person who tends to a flock).
Corpus desk
Index EN-pastoress · pastoress · English
pastoress · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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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 | pastoress |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pastoress” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
pastoress is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for pastoress, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From pastor + -ess. The correct English form is pastoress, spelled P-A-S-T-O-R-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1A female pastor (person who tends to a flock).
- 2A female pastor (minister or priest of a Christian church).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pastoress appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The first Mrs. Kirke was, I judge, a sedate pastoress, who looked well after her household and her husband's flock.
Etymology
From pastor + -ess.
Synonyms
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.
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