shapewear
"shapewear" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“shapewear” is uncommon English (frequency #88,841 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,841
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Foundation garments, designed to hold a part of the body in a particular form.
Corpus desk
Index EN-shapewear · shapewear · English
shapewear · rank #88,841 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,841
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH severest
Nearest frequency peer: severest (-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 “shapewear”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- selly
selly
11,164 corpus weight
- severest
severest
11,162 corpus weight
- shapewear
shapewear
11,160 corpus weight
- sharer
sharer
11,158 corpus weight
- sheerness
sheerness
11,157 corpus weight
- Sherburne
Sherburne
11,156 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “shapewear” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | shapewear |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #88,841 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “shapewear” in English
Rare enough to double-check
shapewear is uncommon English at frequency #88,841 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Foundation garments, designed to hold a part of the body in a particular form.".
shapewear doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From shape + -wear. The correct English form is shapewear, spelled S-H-A-P-E-W-E-A-R.
Definition
- 1Foundation garments, designed to hold a part of the body in a particular form.
Etymology
From shape + -wear.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).