procrastinator
"procrastinator" is a 14-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“procrastinator” is uncommon English (frequency #87,713 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,713
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - One who procrastinates; one who delays working on things.
Corpus desk
Index EN-procrastinator · procrastinator · English
procrastinator · rank #87,713 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,713
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH pronominal
Nearest frequency peer: pronominal (+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 “procrastinator”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
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12,291 corpus weight
- procrastina…
procrastinator
12,288 corpus weight
- pronominal
pronominal
12,287 corpus weight
- propriocept…
proprioception
12,286 corpus weight
- psychodrama
psychodrama
12,285 corpus weight
- psyop
psyop
12,284 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “procrastinator” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | procrastinator |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #87,713 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “procrastinator” in English
Rare enough to double-check
procrastinator is uncommon English at frequency #87,713 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "One who procrastinates; one who delays working on things.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for procrastinator, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From procrastinate + -or. The correct English form is procrastinator, spelled P-R-O-C-R-A-S-T-I-N-A-T-O-R.
Definition
- 1One who procrastinates; one who delays working on things.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how procrastinator appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Live a procrastinator, likely die a procrastinator.
Etymology
From procrastinate + -or.
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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