schemer
/ˈskimɚ/
"schemer" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“schemer” is uncommon English (frequency #68,619 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,619
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - One who plots or schemes, who formulates devious plans.
Corpus desk
Index EN-schemer · schemer · English
schemer · rank #68,619 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,619
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH scarp
Nearest frequency peer: scarp (-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 “schemer”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- sarai
sarai
31,387 corpus weight
- satiric
satiric
31,386 corpus weight
- Sausalito
Sausalito
31,384 corpus weight
- scarp
scarp
31,383 corpus weight
- schemer
schemer
31,382 corpus weight
- scrapyard
scrapyard
31,378 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “schemer” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | schemer |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈskimɚ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #68,619 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “schemer” in English
Rare enough to double-check
schemer is uncommon English at frequency #68,619 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈskimɚ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "One who plots or schemes, who formulates devious plans.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for schemer in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From scheme + -er. The correct English form is schemer, spelled S-C-H-E-M-E-R.
Definition
- 1One who plots or schemes, who formulates devious plans.
Etymology
From scheme + -er.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).