prohibitionist
"prohibitionist" is a 14-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“prohibitionist” is uncommon English (frequency #95,300 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,300
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A person who agrees with, or advocates a prohibition, especially the outlawing of the sale of alcoholic beverages
Corpus desk
Index EN-prohibitionist · prohibitionist · English
prohibitionist · rank #95,300 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,300
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH pronghorn
Nearest frequency peer: pronghorn (+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 “prohibitionist”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- predilectio…
predilections
4,706 corpus weight
- prizefighter
prizefighter
4,703 corpus weight
- prohibition…
prohibitionist
4,701 corpus weight
- pronghorn
pronghorn
4,700 corpus weight
- prophesying
prophesying
4,699 corpus weight
- protectively
protectively
4,697 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “prohibitionist” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prohibitionist |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #95,300 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “prohibitionist” in English
Rare enough to double-check
prohibitionist is uncommon English at frequency #95,300 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A person who agrees with, or advocates a prohibition, especially the outlawing of the sale of alcoholic beverages".
prohibitionist doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From prohibition + -ist. The correct English form is prohibitionist, spelled P-R-O-H-I-B-I-T-I-O-N-I-S-T.
Definition
- 1A person who agrees with, or advocates a prohibition, especially the outlawing of the sale of alcoholic beverages
Etymology
From prohibition + -ist.
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 14 letters (nearest by frequency rank).