rootkit
"rootkit" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“rootkit” is uncommon English (frequency #92,009 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,009
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A set of software tools used by a third party to gain unauthorized access to a computer system and control the system while concealing itself from the user.
Corpus desk
Index EN-rootkit · rootkit · English
rootkit · rank #92,009 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,009
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH rooty
Nearest frequency peer: rooty (+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 “rootkit”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Ritch
Ritch
7,998 corpus weight
- rootkit
rootkit
7,992 corpus weight
- rooty
rooty
7,991 corpus weight
- rowen
rowen
7,990 corpus weight
- RSF
RSF
7,989 corpus weight
- ruleset
ruleset
7,988 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “rootkit” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rootkit |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #92,009 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “rootkit” in English
Rare enough to double-check
rootkit is uncommon English at frequency #92,009 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A set of software tools used by a third party to gain unauthorized access to a computer system and control the system while concealing itself from the user.".
rootkit doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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 root + kit. The correct English form is rootkit, spelled R-O-O-T-K-I-T.
Definition
- 1A set of software tools used by a third party to gain unauthorized access to a computer system and control the system while concealing itself from the user.
Etymology
From root + kit.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).