saleswoman
"saleswoman" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“saleswoman” is uncommon English (frequency #68,608 among 54,294 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,608
- frequency rank, English
- 54,294
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A woman whose occupation it is to sell things.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | saleswoman |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #68,608 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “saleswoman” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
saleswoman is uncommon English at frequency #68,608 among 54,294 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A woman whose occupation it is to sell things.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for saleswoman in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From sales + -woman. The correct English form is saleswoman, spelled S-A-L-E-S-W-O-M-A-N.
Definition
- 1A woman whose occupation it is to sell things.
Etymology
From sales + -woman.
This word in other languages
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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Using “saleswoman”
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- The one correct English spelling is S-A-L-E-S-W-O-M-A-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.