spinney
"spinney" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“spinney” is uncommon English (frequency #96,506 among 54,294 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,506
- frequency rank, English
- 54,294
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A small copse or wood, especially one planted as a shelter for game birds.
Corpus desk
Index EN-spinney · spinney · English
spinney · rank #96,506 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,506
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 54,294
- PHOTO-FINISH spelunking
Nearest frequency peer: spelunking (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “spinney”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- spaciousness
spaciousness
3,498 corpus weight
- Speciale
Speciale
3,497 corpus weight
- spelunking
spelunking
3,496 corpus weight
- spinney
spinney
3,495 corpus weight
- sportswoman
sportswoman
3,494 corpus weight
- Stelios
Stelios
3,487 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “spinney” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | spinney |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #96,506 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “spinney” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
spinney is uncommon English at frequency #96,506 among 54,294 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A small copse or wood, especially one planted as a shelter for game birds.".
Zero misspellings are on record for spinney in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English spenné, from Middle French espinoye (“thorny thicket”), espinaye, from Latin spīnētum (“thorny thicket”), from Latin spīna (“thorn”). The correct English form is spinney, spelled S-P-I-N-N-E-Y.
Definition
- 1A small copse or wood, especially one planted as a shelter for game birds.
Etymology
From Middle English spenné, from Middle French espinoye (“thorny thicket”), espinaye, from Latin spīnētum (“thorny thicket”), from Latin spīna (“thorn”).
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.