ruiner
"ruiner" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“ruiner” is uncommon English (frequency #97,512 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,512
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Someone who ruins.
Corpus desk
Index EN-ruiner · ruiner · English
ruiner · rank #97,512 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,512
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH Rosenwald
Nearest frequency peer: Rosenwald (-5 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 “ruiner”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- rompers
rompers
2,498 corpus weight
- Rosenwald
Rosenwald
2,494 corpus weight
- ruiner
ruiner
2,489 corpus weight
- sacroiliac
sacroiliac
2,484 corpus weight
- Sakuma
Sakuma
2,483 corpus weight
- salvator
salvator
2,482 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “ruiner” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ruiner |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #97,512 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “ruiner” in English
Rare enough to double-check
ruiner is uncommon English at frequency #97,512 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Someone who ruins.".
ruiner doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From ruin + -er. The correct English form is ruiner, spelled R-U-I-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Someone who ruins.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ruiner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
There was a ruined uncle in the family group—ruined by his brother, the Father of the Marshalsea, and knowing no more how than his ruiner did, but accepting the fact as something that could not be helped.
Etymology
From ruin + -er.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).