send down
"send-down" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“send down” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To cause something or someone to pass from a higher to a lower place.
Corpus desk
Index EN-send-down · send down · English
send down · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | send down |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “send down” in English
Rare enough to double-check
send down is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for send down in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is send down, spelled S-E-N-D- -D-O-W-N.
Definition
- 1To cause something or someone to pass from a higher to a lower place.
- 2To bowl.
- 3To commit (someone) to a prison term.
- 4To demote a player within the levels of professional baseball.
- 5To suspend or expel (an undergraduate) from university.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how send down appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Eventually she was caught, and sent down for twelve years.
Crypto king or conman: is Sam Bankman-Fried about to be sent down for a century? [title]
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.