rookery
"rookery" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“rookery” is uncommon English (frequency #76,280 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,280
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A colony of breeding birds or other animals.
Corpus desk
Index EN-rookery · rookery · English
rookery · rank #76,280 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,280
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH rootstock
Nearest frequency peer: rootstock (+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 “rookery”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- retouch
retouch
23,728 corpus weight
- rookery
rookery
23,721 corpus weight
- rootstock
rootstock
23,719 corpus weight
- rostral
rostral
23,718 corpus weight
- rotatable
rotatable
23,717 corpus weight
- Ruta
Ruta
23,715 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “rookery” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rookery |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #76,280 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “rookery” in English
Rare enough to double-check
rookery is uncommon English at frequency #76,280 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for rookery, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From rook + -ery, 1725. The correct English form is rookery, spelled R-O-O-K-E-R-Y.
Definition
- 1A colony of breeding birds or other animals.
- 2A crowded tenement.
- 3A place where criminals congregate, often an area of a town or city.
- 4That part of the barracks occupied by subalterns.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rookery appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
It was a rookery which had never been raided by the hunters, and in consequence the seals were mild-tempered and at the same time unafraid.
In winter rooks roost together in large numbers, and the roost may or may not be a rookery, but almost daily the local residents pay visits to the nesting trees, and about this time often begin playing at nest-building.
Etymology
From rook + -ery, 1725.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).