reservist
"reservist" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“reservist” is uncommon English (frequency #55,057 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,057
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A soldier who is assigned as reserved: after training, no longer on full active duty.
Corpus desk
Index EN-reservist · reservist · English
reservist · rank #55,057 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,057
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH resettle
Nearest frequency peer: resettle (+1 rank slots)
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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 “reservist”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- relegate
relegate
44,950 corpus weight
- reservist
reservist
44,944 corpus weight
- resettle
resettle
44,943 corpus weight
- restate
restate
44,941 corpus weight
- retinol
retinol
44,940 corpus weight
- retrofitting
retrofitting
44,939 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “reservist” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | reservist |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #55,057 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “reservist” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
reservist is uncommon English at frequency #55,057 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A soldier who is assigned as reserved: after training, no longer on full active duty.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for reservist, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From reserve + -ist. The correct English form is reservist, spelled R-E-S-E-R-V-I-S-T.
Definition
- 1A soldier who is assigned as reserved: after training, no longer on full active duty.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how reservist appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
One of the men there, a reservist he said he was, told my brother he had seen the heliograph flickering in the west.
Etymology
From reserve + -ist.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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