spellcheck
"spellcheck" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“spellcheck” is uncommon English (frequency #92,098 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,098
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act of spellchecking.
Corpus desk
Index EN-spellcheck · spellcheck · English
spellcheck · rank #92,098 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,098
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Spetsnaz
Nearest frequency peer: Spetsnaz (+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 “spellcheck”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Southlake
Southlake
7,907 corpus weight
- spellcheck
spellcheck
7,903 corpus weight
- Spetsnaz
Spetsnaz
7,902 corpus weight
- spinosaurus
spinosaurus
7,901 corpus weight
- sprit
sprit
7,900 corpus weight
- Stevo
Stevo
7,895 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “spellcheck” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | spellcheck |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #92,098 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “spellcheck” in English
Rare enough to double-check
spellcheck is uncommon English at frequency #92,098 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for spellcheck in our index, 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, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: Back-formation from spellchecker. The correct English form is spellcheck, spelled S-P-E-L-L-C-H-E-C-K.
Definition
- 1The act of spellchecking.
- 2A spellchecker.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how spellcheck appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
You'd better run another spellcheck now that you've written that extra chapter.
My wordprocessor is supposed to have a spellcheck, but I don't know how to use it.
Etymology
Back-formation from spellchecker.
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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).