segregationist
"segregationist" is a 14-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“segregationist” is uncommon English (frequency #77,188 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,188
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A person who supports or believes in segregation.
Corpus desk
Index EN-segregationist · segregationist · English
segregationist · rank #77,188 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,188
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH seethe
Nearest frequency peer: seethe (-1 rank slots)
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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.
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Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
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22,813 corpus weight
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What this shows Long-tail view: where “segregationist” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | segregationist |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #77,188 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “segregationist” in English
Rare enough to double-check
segregationist is uncommon English at frequency #77,188 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A person who supports or believes in segregation.".
Zero misspellings are on record for segregationist in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From segregation + -ist. The correct English form is segregationist, spelled S-E-G-R-E-G-A-T-I-O-N-I-S-T.
Definition
- 1A person who supports or believes in segregation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how segregationist appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Her [Rosa Parks'] arrest launched a 381-day Montgomery bus boycott in which 40,000 Black people, mostly all working people, fought the segregationist bosses.
In 2003, Biden eulogized South Carolina Republican Sen. Strom Thurmond, one of the most notorious segregationists in American politics for most of his career who had “moved to the good side” later in life, Biden said.
Etymology
From segregation + -ist.
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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