seducer
"seducer" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“seducer” is uncommon English (frequency #63,235 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,235
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Someone who seduces, especially a man who seduces a woman.
Corpus desk
Index EN-seducer · seducer · English
seducer · rank #63,235 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,235
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH seascape
Nearest frequency peer: seascape (-2 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 “seducer”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- scram
scram
36,773 corpus weight
- seahawk
seahawk
36,770 corpus weight
- seascape
seascape
36,768 corpus weight
- seducer
seducer
36,766 corpus weight
- septal
septal
36,762 corpus weight
- serially
serially
36,761 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “seducer” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | seducer |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #63,235 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “seducer” in English
Rare enough to double-check
seducer is uncommon English at frequency #63,235 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Someone who seduces, especially a man who seduces a woman.".
seducer doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: From seduce + -er. The correct English form is seducer, spelled S-E-D-U-C-E-R.
Definition
- 1Someone who seduces, especially a man who seduces a woman.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how seducer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
But Ted Farrell couldn't stop; that armful of active girl was too much for the wise precautions of a seducer. He kept panting, "Don't be a nark, Cora," while struggling to hold her down.
Knox takes us through the lives of memorable seducers and their critics, in sometimes academic and sometimes rococo prose dappled with doges, coups de foudre, rakes, bawds, coquettes, coxcombs and procuresses — with guest appearances by members of the Frankfurt School sunning themselves in La Jolla.
Etymology
From seduce + -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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