sex offender
"sex-offender" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sex offender” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Somebody who has committed a crime of a sexual nature.
Corpus desk
Index EN-sex-offender · sex offender · English
sex offender · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 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 | sex offender |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “sex offender” in English
Rare enough to double-check
sex offender is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Somebody who has committed a crime of a sexual nature.".
sex offender doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is sex offender, spelled S-E-X- -O-F-F-E-N-D-E-R.
Definition
- 1Somebody who has committed a crime of a sexual nature.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sex offender appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
She then became a domestic and after a year was a sex offender for the first time. She had known the man for 2 years. Her sister discovered her relations with this man 8 months later and had her sent to the House of Good Shepherd.
Soon after our case, another convicted sex offender was released back into our community and was accepted as if nothing had happened.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.