spinnaker
/ˈspɪnəkə/
"spinnaker" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“spinnaker” is uncommon English (frequency #70,283 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,283
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A sail supplemental to the mainsail, especially a triangular one, used on yachts for running before the wind.
Corpus desk
Index EN-spinnaker · spinnaker · English
spinnaker · rank #70,283 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,283
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH spink
Nearest frequency peer: spink (-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 “spinnaker”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- spanky
spanky
29,723 corpus weight
- sphagnum
sphagnum
29,720 corpus weight
- spink
spink
29,719 corpus weight
- spinnaker
spinnaker
29,718 corpus weight
- Spivak
Spivak
29,717 corpus weight
- sportswriter
sportswriter
29,714 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “spinnaker” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | spinnaker |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈspɪnəkə/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #70,283 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “spinnaker” in English
Rare enough to double-check
spinnaker is uncommon English at frequency #70,283 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈspɪnəkə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A sail supplemental to the mainsail, especially a triangular one, used on yachts for running before the wind.".
Zero misspellings are on record for spinnaker in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is spinnaker, spelled S-P-I-N-N-A-K-E-R.
Definition
- 1A sail supplemental to the mainsail, especially a triangular one, used on yachts for running before the wind.
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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