plowman
/ˈplaʊ.mən/
"plowman" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“plowman” is uncommon English (frequency #73,533 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,533
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A man who plows land with a plow.
Corpus desk
Index EN-plowman · plowman · English
plowman · rank #73,533 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,533
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH Plattsburgh
Nearest frequency peer: Plattsburgh (-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 “plowman”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- phraseology
phraseology
26,474 corpus weight
- Piaf
Piaf
26,472 corpus weight
- Plattsburgh
Plattsburgh
26,469 corpus weight
- plowman
plowman
26,468 corpus weight
- plurals
plurals
26,465 corpus weight
- plushie
plushie
26,464 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “plowman” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | plowman |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈplaʊ.mən/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #73,533 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “plowman” in English
Rare enough to double-check
plowman is uncommon English at frequency #73,533 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈplaʊ.mən/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A man who plows land with a plow.".
plowman has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English plowman, ploghmon, plouȝman, equivalent to plow + man. Compare Middle Dutch ploechman. The correct English form is plowman, spelled P-L-O-W-M-A-N.
Definition
- 1A man who plows land with a plow.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how plowman appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A cereal breeder's farmhands must be good plowmen.
Etymology
From Middle English plowman, ploghmon, plouȝman, equivalent to plow + man. Compare Middle Dutch ploechman.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).