spacewalk
"spacewalk" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“spacewalk” is uncommon English (frequency #57,727 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,727
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Any activity by an astronaut outside of a spacecraft or space station in space.
Corpus desk
Index EN-spacewalk · spacewalk · English
spacewalk · rank #57,727 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,727
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH spay
Nearest frequency peer: spay (+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 “spacewalk”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- soonest
soonest
42,278 corpus weight
- soundproof
soundproof
42,276 corpus weight
- spacewalk
spacewalk
42,274 corpus weight
- spay
spay
42,273 corpus weight
- sprig
sprig
42,271 corpus weight
- Steuben
Steuben
42,266 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “spacewalk” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | spacewalk |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #57,727 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “spacewalk” in English
Rare enough to double-check
spacewalk is uncommon English at frequency #57,727 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Any activity by an astronaut outside of a spacecraft or space station in space.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for spacewalk, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From space + walk. The correct English form is spacewalk, spelled S-P-A-C-E-W-A-L-K.
Definition
- 1Any activity by an astronaut outside of a spacecraft or space station in space.
Etymology
From space + walk.
Synonyms
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).