spaz
/spæz/
"spaz" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“spaz” is uncommon English (frequency #59,720 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,720
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An incompetent or physically uncoordinated person; a spazmo.
Corpus desk
Index EN-spaz · spaz · English
spaz · rank #59,720 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,720
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH spatter
Nearest frequency peer: spatter (-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 “spaz”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- sotto
sotto
40,285 corpus weight
- soundstage
soundstage
40,283 corpus weight
- spatter
spatter
40,282 corpus weight
- spaz
spaz
40,281 corpus weight
- speared
speared
40,280 corpus weight
- Springdale
Springdale
40,278 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “spaz” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | spaz |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /spæz/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #59,720 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “spaz” in English
Rare enough to double-check
spaz is uncommon English at frequency #59,720 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /spæz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for spaz, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From spastic. The correct English form is spaz, spelled S-P-A-Z.
Definition
- 1An incompetent or physically uncoordinated person; a spazmo.
- 2A hyperactive, erratically behaving person.
- 3A tantrum or fit.
- 4A person with spastic paralysis, spastic cerebral palsy or epilepsy
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how spaz appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In fact, it was the view of the scientists now in charge […] that the freakier they were, the better; if a mental spaz could go through and come out all right […] then the process was probably safe for the executives, politicians, and fashion models of the world.
“I was so in control from tee to green, the best I’ve played for years… But as soon as I got on the green I was a spaz.”
Etymology
From spastic.
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); 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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