playgroup
"playgroup" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“playgroup” is uncommon English (frequency #63,896 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,896
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A group of children who meet together for supervised play.
Corpus desk
Index EN-playgroup · playgroup · English
playgroup · rank #63,896 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,896
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH Poitiers
Nearest frequency peer: Poitiers (+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 “playgroup”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- pinhead
pinhead
36,109 corpus weight
- pitifully
pitifully
36,108 corpus weight
- playgroup
playgroup
36,105 corpus weight
- Poitiers
Poitiers
36,103 corpus weight
- pollinator
pollinator
36,102 corpus weight
- polycrystal…
polycrystalline
36,101 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “playgroup” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | playgroup |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #63,896 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “playgroup” in English
Rare enough to double-check
playgroup is uncommon English at frequency #63,896 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
playgroup has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From play + group. The correct English form is playgroup, spelled P-L-A-Y-G-R-O-U-P.
Definition
- 1A group of children who meet together for supervised play.
- 2A group of gamers who meet together, especially for role-playing games.
- 3An informal organised group providing care and activities for preschool children.
Etymology
From play + group.
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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).