policewoman
"policewoman" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“policewoman” is uncommon English (frequency #50,727 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,727
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A female police officer.
Corpus desk
Index EN-policewoman · policewoman · English
policewoman · rank #50,727 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,727
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH pokey
Nearest frequency peer: pokey (-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 “policewoman”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- pinker
pinker
49,278 corpus weight
- plover
plover
49,277 corpus weight
- pokey
pokey
49,276 corpus weight
- policewoman
policewoman
49,274 corpus weight
- polygonal
polygonal
49,272 corpus weight
- postdoc
postdoc
49,270 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “policewoman” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | policewoman |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #50,727 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “policewoman” in English
Rare enough to double-check
policewoman is uncommon English at frequency #50,727 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A female police officer.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for policewoman, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From police + -woman. The correct English form is policewoman, spelled P-O-L-I-C-E-W-O-M-A-N.
Definition
- 1A female police officer.
Etymology
From police + -woman.
Synonyms
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).