pincers
/ˈpɪnsəɹz/
"pincers" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“pincers” is uncommon English (frequency #66,931 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,931
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of pincer
Corpus desk
Index EN-pincers · pincers · English
pincers · rank #66,931 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,931
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH pileup
Nearest frequency peer: pileup (-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 “pincers”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- picot
picot
33,073 corpus weight
- pileup
pileup
33,071 corpus weight
- pincers
pincers
33,070 corpus weight
- pincher
pincher
33,069 corpus weight
- Pinkman
Pinkman
33,068 corpus weight
- Piscataway
Piscataway
33,067 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “pincers” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pincers |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈpɪnsəɹz/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #66,931 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “pincers” in English
Rare enough to double-check
pincers is uncommon English at frequency #66,931 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈpɪnsəɹz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of pincer".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for pincers, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English pynsours, from Old French pinceure, pinchure, from pincier (“to pinch”). The correct English form is pincers, spelled P-I-N-C-E-R-S.
Definition
- 1plural of pincer
Etymology
From Middle English pynsours, from Old French pinceure, pinchure, from pincier (“to pinch”).
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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