pocketful
"pocketful" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“pocketful” is uncommon English (frequency #93,026 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,026
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - The amount that a pocket would hold.
Corpus desk
Index EN-pocketful · pocketful · English
pocketful · rank #93,026 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,026
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH pneuma
Nearest frequency peer: pneuma (-1 rank slots)
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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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “pocketful”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- plutonic
plutonic
6,978 corpus weight
- pneuma
pneuma
6,976 corpus weight
- pocketful
pocketful
6,975 corpus weight
- pocky
pocky
6,974 corpus weight
- poliomyelit…
poliomyelitis
6,973 corpus weight
- Politi
Politi
6,972 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “pocketful” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pocketful |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #93,026 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pocketful” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
pocketful is uncommon English at frequency #93,026 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 pocketful in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From pocket + -ful. The correct English form is pocketful, spelled P-O-C-K-E-T-F-U-L.
Definition
- 1The amount that a pocket would hold.
- 2A small or moderate amount.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pocketful appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
White came to City Hall on Monday morning, entering through a basement window, with a gun and a pocketful of bullets.
This Government came in with a pocketful of promises. Every time the Prime Minister (Mr. Mulroney) saw two farmers at a crossroads he had five more promises to make.
Etymology
From pocket + -ful.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 2, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.