screener
"screener" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“screener” is uncommon English (frequency #67,028 among 54,294 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,028
- frequency rank, English
- 54,294
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - One who, or that which, screens.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | screener |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #67,028 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “screener” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
screener is uncommon English at frequency #67,028 among 54,294 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for screener, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From screen + -er. The correct English form is screener, spelled S-C-R-E-E-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1One who, or that which, screens.
- 2One who, or that which, screens.
- 3An advance screening of a film sent to critics, awards voters, etc.
- 4A cinema having the specified number of screens.
Etymology
From screen + -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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Using “screener”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is S-C-R-E-E-N-E-R - 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.