sleeker
"sleeker" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sleeker” is uncommon English (frequency #71,109 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,109
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - comparative form of sleek: more sleek
Corpus desk
Index EN-sleeker · sleeker · English
sleeker · rank #71,109 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,109
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH slanting
Nearest frequency peer: slanting (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “sleeker”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Silvana
Silvana
28,898 corpus weight
- Sinan
Sinan
28,897 corpus weight
- skylab
skylab
28,895 corpus weight
- slanting
slanting
28,894 corpus weight
- sleeker
sleeker
28,892 corpus weight
- snips
snips
28,888 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “sleeker” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sleeker |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #71,109 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sleeker” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
sleeker is uncommon English at frequency #71,109 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "comparative form of sleek: more sleek".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for sleeker, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From sleek + -er. The correct English form is sleeker, spelled S-L-E-E-K-E-R.
Definition
- 1comparative form of sleek: more sleek
Etymology
From sleek + -er.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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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.