pedocriminal
/ˈpiː.dəˈkɹɪm.ɪ.nəl/
"pedocriminal" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“pedocriminal” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A person who commits child sexual abuse; a child molester.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pedocriminal |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈpiː.dəˈkɹɪm.ɪ.nəl/ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pedocriminal” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
pedocriminal is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈpiː.dəˈkɹɪm.ɪ.nəl/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A person who commits child sexual abuse; a child molester.".
pedocriminal doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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 pedo- (“child”) + -phile, after Ancient Greek παιδοφῐ́λης (paidophĭ́lēs) (from παῖς (paîs, “boy, child”) + φιλέω (philéō, “I love”)), and from Middle English cryminal, borrowed from Anglo-Norman criminal, from Late Latin criminalis, from Latin crimen (… The correct English form is pedocriminal, spelled P-E-D-O-C-R-I-M-I-N-A-L.
Definition
- 1A person who commits child sexual abuse; a child molester.
Etymology
From pedo- (“child”) + -phile, after Ancient Greek παιδοφῐ́λης (paidophĭ́lēs) (from παῖς (paîs, “boy, child”) + φιλέω (philéō, “I love”)), and from Middle English cryminal, borrowed from Anglo-Norman criminal, from Late Latin criminalis, from Latin crimen (“crime”).
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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Using “pedocriminal”
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- The one correct English spelling is P-E-D-O-C-R-I-M-I-N-A-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.