rotorcraft
"rotorcraft" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“rotorcraft” is uncommon English (frequency #84,699 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,699
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Any aircraft that obtains its lift from rotors.
Corpus desk
Index EN-rotorcraft · rotorcraft · English
rotorcraft · rank #84,699 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,699
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH rosella
Nearest frequency peer: rosella (-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 “rotorcraft”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- roguelike
roguelike
15,307 corpus weight
- Roquefort
Roquefort
15,304 corpus weight
- rosella
rosella
15,303 corpus weight
- rotorcraft
rotorcraft
15,302 corpus weight
- ruffed
ruffed
15,298 corpus weight
- RWA
RWA
15,295 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “rotorcraft” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rotorcraft |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #84,699 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “rotorcraft” in English
Rare enough to double-check
rotorcraft is uncommon English at frequency #84,699 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Any aircraft that obtains its lift from rotors.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for rotorcraft, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From rotor + craft. The correct English form is rotorcraft, spelled R-O-T-O-R-C-R-A-F-T.
Definition
- 1Any aircraft that obtains its lift from rotors.
Etymology
From rotor + craft.
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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