smear campaign
"smear-campaign" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“smear campaign” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - An effort to damage or call into question someone's reputation, by propounding negative propaganda.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | smear campaign |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “smear campaign” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
smear campaign is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An effort to damage or call into question someone's reputation, by propounding negative propaganda.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for smear campaign, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is smear campaign, spelled S-M-E-A-R- -C-A-M-P-A-I-G-N.
Definition
- 1An effort to damage or call into question someone's reputation, by propounding negative propaganda.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “smear campaign”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is S-M-E-A-R- -C-A-M-P-A-I-G-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.