stakeout
"stakeout" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“stakeout” is uncommon English (frequency #89,940 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,940
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act of watching a location or people, generally covertly.
Corpus desk
Index EN-stakeout · stakeout · English
stakeout · rank #89,940 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,940
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH stabling
Nearest frequency peer: stabling (-2 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 “stakeout”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- sprue
sprue
10,065 corpus weight
- stabling
stabling
10,063 corpus weight
- stakeout
stakeout
10,061 corpus weight
- stereochemi…
stereochemistry
10,056 corpus weight
- stereotactic
stereotactic
10,055 corpus weight
- sternal
sternal
10,054 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “stakeout” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stakeout |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #89,940 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “stakeout” in English
Rare enough to double-check
stakeout is uncommon English at frequency #89,940 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The act of watching a location or people, generally covertly.".
Zero misspellings are on record for stakeout in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: Deverbal from stake out. The correct English form is stakeout, spelled S-T-A-K-E-O-U-T.
Definition
- 1The act of watching a location or people, generally covertly.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how stakeout appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The police had a stakeout in place where they expected the crime to occur.
Etymology
Deverbal from stake out.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).