snowmelt
/ˈsnoʊˌmɛlt/
"snowmelt" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“snowmelt” is uncommon English (frequency #74,521 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,521
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Runoff from melting snow.
Corpus desk
Index EN-snowmelt · snowmelt · English
snowmelt · rank #74,521 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,521
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH snipping
Nearest frequency peer: snipping (-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 “snowmelt”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- slovenly
slovenly
25,484 corpus weight
- sniffle
sniffle
25,482 corpus weight
- snipping
snipping
25,481 corpus weight
- snowmelt
snowmelt
25,480 corpus weight
- softy
softy
25,478 corpus weight
- solarium
solarium
25,476 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “snowmelt” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | snowmelt |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈsnoʊˌmɛlt/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #74,521 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “snowmelt” in English
Rare enough to double-check
snowmelt is uncommon English at frequency #74,521 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈsnoʊˌmɛlt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Runoff from melting snow.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for snowmelt, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: From snow + melt. The correct English form is snowmelt, spelled S-N-O-W-M-E-L-T.
Definition
- 1Runoff from melting snow.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how snowmelt appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The snowmelt causes the river to flood.
Outside, a wind from the south had picked up, a thawing wind that quickened the patter of snowmelt on the back patio.
Etymology
From snow + melt.
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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