persecutor
"persecutor" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“persecutor” is uncommon English (frequency #95,261 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,261
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A person or thing that persecutes or harasses.
Corpus desk
Index EN-persecutor · persecutor · English
persecutor · rank #95,261 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,261
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH Perret
Nearest frequency peer: Perret (-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 “persecutor”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- perceivable
perceivable
4,744 corpus weight
- Perino
Perino
4,743 corpus weight
- Perret
Perret
4,741 corpus weight
- persecutor
persecutor
4,740 corpus weight
- perspire
perspire
4,738 corpus weight
- Petrenko
Petrenko
4,737 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “persecutor” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | persecutor |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #95,261 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “persecutor” in English
Rare enough to double-check
persecutor is uncommon English at frequency #95,261 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A person or thing that persecutes or harasses.".
No misspelling variants are generated for persecutor in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English persecutour, from Old French persecutor and Latin persecūtor. Displaced native Old English ēhtere. The correct English form is persecutor, spelled P-E-R-S-E-C-U-T-O-R.
Definition
- 1A person or thing that persecutes or harasses.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how persecutor appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Live a persecutor, likely die a persecutor.
Etymology
From Middle English persecutour, from Old French persecutor and Latin persecūtor. Displaced native Old English ēhtere.
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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).