safebreaker

noun

"safebreaker" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“safebreaker” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
11
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A person, usually criminal, who breaks into safes; a safecracker.

Corpus desk

Index EN-safebreaker · safebreaker · English

safebreaker · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "S" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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Key facts for safebreaker
PropertyValue
Headwordsafebreaker
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “safebreaker” in English

safebreakersits beyond the 100,000 most-frequent English words, in the long tail of technical, archaic, or otherwise rare vocabulary where spelling doubt tends to strike hardest.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

safebreaker is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A person, usually criminal, who breaks into safes; a safecracker.".

No generated misspelling entries exist for safebreaker in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

Etymologically, the entry records: From safe (“secure container”) + breaker. The correct English form is safebreaker, spelled S-A-F-E-B-R-E-A-K-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    A person, usually criminal, who breaks into safes; a safecracker.

Etymology

From safe (“secure container”) + breaker.

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "safebreaker"?
"safebreaker" is spelled S-A-F-E-B-R-E-A-K-E-R.
What does "safebreaker" mean?
As a noun, "safebreaker" means: A person, usually criminal, who breaks into safes; a safecracker.
What is the origin of the word "safebreaker"?
From safe (“secure container”) + breaker. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list