reacher
"reacher" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“reacher” is uncommon English (frequency #50,761 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,761
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A person who reaches.
Corpus desk
Index EN-reacher · reacher · English
reacher · rank #50,761 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,761
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH rawhide
Nearest frequency peer: rawhide (-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 “reacher”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- raga
raga
49,243 corpus weight
- raggedy
raggedy
49,242 corpus weight
- rawhide
rawhide
49,241 corpus weight
- reacher
reacher
49,240 corpus weight
- reassemble
reassemble
49,239 corpus weight
- reauthoriza…
reauthorization
49,238 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “reacher” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | reacher |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #50,761 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “reacher” in English
Rare enough to double-check
reacher is uncommon English at frequency #50,761 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
reacher has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From reach + -er. The correct English form is reacher, spelled R-E-A-C-H-E-R.
Definition
- 1A person who reaches.
- 2A device used to reach something.
- 3A sail, a kind of asymmetrical spinnaker.
- 4An exaggeration
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how reacher appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In their own lives they would not be reachers after crowns, and knew it.
Each tack was only for 100 yards and now we had the right sail while they had reachers.
Etymology
From reach + -er.
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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