skillset
"skillset" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“skillset” is uncommon English (frequency #59,023 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,023
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative form of skill set.
Corpus desk
Index EN-skillset · skillset · English
skillset · rank #59,023 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,023
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH situate
Nearest frequency peer: situate (-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 “skillset”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- sitar
sitar
40,980 corpus weight
- situate
situate
40,979 corpus weight
- skillset
skillset
40,978 corpus weight
- Skipton
Skipton
40,977 corpus weight
- slushy
slushy
40,976 corpus weight
- smoak
smoak
40,975 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “skillset” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | skillset |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #59,023 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “skillset” in English
Rare enough to double-check
skillset is uncommon English at frequency #59,023 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative form of skill set.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for skillset in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is skillset, spelled S-K-I-L-L-S-E-T.
Definition
- 1Alternative form of skill set.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how skillset appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Software skillsets of some of the train builders seem to have adapted more slowly than the pace of technology required.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).