sportswoman
"sportswoman" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sportswoman” is uncommon English (frequency #96,507 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,507
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A woman who engages in sports; a female athlete.
Corpus desk
Index EN-sportswoman · sportswoman · English
sportswoman · rank #96,507 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,507
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH spinney
Nearest frequency peer: spinney (-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 “sportswoman”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- 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 Long-tail view: where “sportswoman” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sportswoman |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #96,507 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “sportswoman” in English
Rare enough to double-check
sportswoman is uncommon English at frequency #96,507 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A woman who engages in sports; a female athlete.".
sportswoman doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From sports + -woman. The correct English form is sportswoman, spelled S-P-O-R-T-S-W-O-M-A-N.
Definition
- 1A woman who engages in sports; a female athlete.
Etymology
From sports + -woman.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).