penny pincher
"penny-pincher" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“penny pincher” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - One who spends little money; one who is very frugal or cautious with money.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | penny pincher |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “penny pincher” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
penny pincher is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "One who spends little money; one who is very frugal or cautious with money.".
penny pincher doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From pinchpenny. The correct English form is penny pincher, spelled P-E-N-N-Y- -P-I-N-C-H-E-R.
Definition
- 1One who spends little money; one who is very frugal or cautious with money.
Etymology
From pinchpenny.
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 “penny pincher”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is P-E-N-N-Y- -P-I-N-C-H-E-R - 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.