scamper
/ˈskæmpə/
"scamper" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“scamper” is uncommon English (frequency #62,480 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,480
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A quick, light run.
Corpus desk
Index EN-scamper · scamper · English
scamper · rank #62,480 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,480
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Sauvage
Nearest frequency peer: Sauvage (-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 “scamper”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Santini
Santini
37,526 corpus weight
- sartorial
sartorial
37,524 corpus weight
- Sauvage
Sauvage
37,522 corpus weight
- scamper
scamper
37,521 corpus weight
- SCE
SCE
37,520 corpus weight
- Schiphol
Schiphol
37,518 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “scamper” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | scamper |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈskæmpə/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #62,480 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “scamper” in English
Rare enough to double-check
scamper is uncommon English at frequency #62,480 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈskæmpə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A quick, light run.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for scamper, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: First attested in 1687. Origin uncertain, but possibly from Dutch schamperen, from Old French escamper, from Vulgar Latin *excampāre. The correct English form is scamper, spelled S-C-A-M-P-E-R.
Definition
- 1A quick, light run.
Etymology
First attested in 1687. Origin uncertain, but possibly from Dutch schamperen, from Old French escamper, from Vulgar Latin *excampāre.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).