playpen
"playpen" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“playpen” is uncommon English (frequency #63,145 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,145
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An enclosure in which babies or small children can play.
Corpus desk
Index EN-playpen · playpen · English
playpen · rank #63,145 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,145
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH Pitcairn
Nearest frequency peer: Pitcairn (-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 “playpen”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Piggott
Piggott
36,859 corpus weight
- pish
pish
36,858 corpus weight
- Pitcairn
Pitcairn
36,857 corpus weight
- playpen
playpen
36,856 corpus weight
- poignancy
poignancy
36,854 corpus weight
- Pollux
Pollux
36,852 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “playpen” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | playpen |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #63,145 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “playpen” in English
Rare enough to double-check
playpen is uncommon English at frequency #63,145 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for playpen in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From play + pen. The correct English form is playpen, spelled P-L-A-Y-P-E-N.
Definition
- 1An enclosure in which babies or small children can play.
- 2An area or domain in which a person can exercise their activities or endeavors freely.
Etymology
From play + pen.
This word in other languages
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).