pole vaulter
"pole-vaulter" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“pole vaulter” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - An athlete who competes in the pole vault.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pole vaulter |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pole vaulter” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
pole vaulter is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An athlete who competes in the pole vault.".
pole vaulter doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is pole vaulter, spelled P-O-L-E- -V-A-U-L-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1An athlete who competes in the pole vault.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “pole vaulter”
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- The one correct English spelling is P-O-L-E- -V-A-U-L-T-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.