roundtrip
"roundtrip" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“roundtrip” is uncommon English (frequency #58,983 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,983
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative form of round trip.
Corpus desk
Index EN-roundtrip · roundtrip · English
roundtrip · rank #58,983 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,983
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH ruan
Nearest frequency peer: ruan (+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 “roundtrip”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- rickets
rickets
41,021 corpus weight
- roundtrip
roundtrip
41,018 corpus weight
- ruan
ruan
41,017 corpus weight
- RUC
RUC
41,016 corpus weight
- Saka
Saka
41,015 corpus weight
- Salgado
Salgado
41,014 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “roundtrip” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | roundtrip |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #58,983 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “roundtrip” in English
Rare enough to double-check
roundtrip is uncommon English at frequency #58,983 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative form of round trip.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for roundtrip in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is roundtrip, spelled R-O-U-N-D-T-R-I-P.
Definition
- 1Alternative form of round trip.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how roundtrip appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Left with only her Sun-Times subscribers, she faced a 35-mile roundtrip to deliver to four of them.
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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).