rocksteady
"rocksteady" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“rocksteady” is uncommon English (frequency #63,956 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,956
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A genre of Jamaican music somewhat slower than ska.
Corpus desk
Index EN-rocksteady · rocksteady · English
rocksteady · rank #63,956 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,956
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH Rosas
Nearest frequency peer: Rosas (+2 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 “rocksteady”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Rilke
Rilke
36,051 corpus weight
- riverine
riverine
36,049 corpus weight
- rocksteady
rocksteady
36,045 corpus weight
- Rosas
Rosas
36,043 corpus weight
- Ruggles
Ruggles
36,038 corpus weight
- Ruud
Ruud
36,037 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “rocksteady” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rocksteady |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #63,956 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “rocksteady” in English
Rare enough to double-check
rocksteady is uncommon English at frequency #63,956 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A genre of Jamaican music somewhat slower than ska.".
rocksteady has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From rock + steady. The correct English form is rocksteady, spelled R-O-C-K-S-T-E-A-D-Y.
Definition
- 1A genre of Jamaican music somewhat slower than ska.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how rocksteady appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
“Maelcum a rude boy, Case. Garvey Maelcum boat.” His gloved hand slapped a panel and the bass-heavy rocksteady of Zion dub came pulsing from the tug's speakers.
Etymology
From rock + steady.
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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