playbill
/ˈpleɪˌbɪl/
"playbill" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“playbill” is uncommon English (frequency #85,653 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,653
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A poster advertising a theatrical performance.
Corpus desk
Index EN-playbill · playbill · English
playbill · rank #85,653 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,653
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH plumping
Nearest frequency peer: plumping (+2 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 “playbill”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- picaresque
picaresque
14,353 corpus weight
- Pieters
Pieters
14,352 corpus weight
- playbill
playbill
14,348 corpus weight
- plumping
plumping
14,346 corpus weight
- polarizer
polarizer
14,345 corpus weight
- Pomo
Pomo
14,344 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “playbill” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | playbill |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈpleɪˌbɪl/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #85,653 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “playbill” in English
Rare enough to double-check
playbill is uncommon English at frequency #85,653 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈpleɪˌbɪl/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for playbill in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From play + bill. The correct English form is playbill, spelled P-L-A-Y-B-I-L-L.
Definition
- 1A poster advertising a theatrical performance.
- 2A program/programme/pamphlet for a theatrical performance.
Etymology
From play + bill.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).