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springhead

noun

springhead is spelled S-P-R-I-N-G-H-E-A-D: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 69 million words in written English, the 262,293rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, springhead means “The source of a natural spring” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of springhead is springheads.

How many letters and syllables are in springhead?

Letters10: S-P-R-I-N-G-H-E-A-D
In writingabout once in every 69 million words; the 262,293rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is springhead?

Springhead appears about once in every 69 million words in written English, the 262,293rd most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Forms of springhead

  • springheads plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does springhead mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    The source of a natural spring.

  2. 2

    A source.

  3. 3

    A head or end-piece for a carriage-spring.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does springhead come from?

From spring + head.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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