skinner
"skinner" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“skinner” is a moderately-common English word, ranked #15,060 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #15,060
- frequency rank, English
- 7
- letters
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Someone who skins animals.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | skinner |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #15,060 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “skinner” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for skinner is 7 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #15,060 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for skinner, with forms such as "ksinner", "siknner", and "skinenr". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "skinny", "skipper", "spinner", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English skynner, skinner, skynnere, schynnere, equivalent to skin + -er. Cognate with Old Norse skinnari (“skinner”), Old Swedish skinnare (“skinner”), Middle Low German schinder, schinner (“skinner”). The correct English form is skinner, spelled S-K-I-N-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Someone who skins animals.
- 2A hunting knife used for skinning animal carcasses.
- 3A machine used for removing the skin from animal carcasses.
- 4One who deals in skins, pelts, or hides.
- 5A child sexual abuser.
- 6An instance of skinning the lamb, i.e. a bookmaker winning all of his bets where nobody backed the winner.
Etymology
From Middle English skynner, skinner, skynnere, schynnere, equivalent to skin + -er. Cognate with Old Norse skinnari (“skinner”), Old Swedish skinnare (“skinner”), Middle Low German schinder, schinner (“skinner”).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ksinner,siknner,skinenr,skiner,skinnerr,skinnre,skkinner,skniner,sskinner
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of skinner - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Using “skinner”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is S-K-I-N-N-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “skinny” - see the side-by-side comparison. skinner vs skinny
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.