policyholder
"policyholder" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“policyholder” is uncommon English (frequency #55,652 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,652
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The party to an insurance contract who owns the policy and thus transfers a risk to an insurer (i.e., pays the insurer to take the risk).
Corpus desk
Index EN-policyholder · policyholder · English
policyholder · rank #55,652 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,652
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH Poehler
Nearest frequency peer: Poehler (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “policyholder”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
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44,353 corpus weight
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44,351 corpus weight
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Poehler
44,350 corpus weight
- policyholder
policyholder
44,349 corpus weight
- polyunsatur…
polyunsaturated
44,347 corpus weight
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Pondicherry
44,346 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “policyholder” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | policyholder |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #55,652 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “policyholder” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
policyholder is uncommon English at frequency #55,652 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The party to an insurance contract who owns the policy and thus transfers a risk to an insurer (i.e., pays the insurer to take the risk).".
Zero misspellings are on record for policyholder in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From policy + holder. The correct English form is policyholder, spelled P-O-L-I-C-Y-H-O-L-D-E-R.
Definition
- 1The party to an insurance contract who owns the policy and thus transfers a risk to an insurer (i.e., pays the insurer to take the risk).
Etymology
From policy + holder.
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 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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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.