skateboarder
"skateboarder" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“skateboarder” is uncommon English (frequency #57,714 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,714
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A person who rides a skateboard.
Corpus desk
Index EN-skateboarder · skateboarder · English
skateboarder · rank #57,714 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,714
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH singe
Nearest frequency peer: singe (-1 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 “skateboarder”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Sigourney
Sigourney
42,291 corpus weight
- Sigrid
Sigrid
42,290 corpus weight
- singe
singe
42,288 corpus weight
- skateboarder
skateboarder
42,287 corpus weight
- slurring
slurring
42,284 corpus weight
- smokehouse
smokehouse
42,283 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “skateboarder” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | skateboarder |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #57,714 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “skateboarder” in English
Rare enough to double-check
skateboarder is uncommon English at frequency #57,714 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A person who rides a skateboard.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for skateboarder, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From skateboard + -er. The correct English form is skateboarder, spelled S-K-A-T-E-B-O-A-R-D-E-R.
Definition
- 1A person who rides a skateboard.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how skateboarder appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The streets of Ukraine are scarred by war, but that isn’t stopping many young skateboarders from doing what they love to do. […] “It’s a way of feeling alive, even when everything around you is falling apart,” Vasilkan, a skateboarder from Odesa, told French photojournalist Robin Tutenges.
Etymology
From skateboard + -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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).