stimulator
"stimulator" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“stimulator” is uncommon English (frequency #59,731 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,731
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A person, device or substance that stimulates.
Corpus desk
Index EN-stimulator · stimulator · English
stimulator · rank #59,731 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,731
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH stopgap
Nearest frequency peer: stopgap (+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 “stimulator”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- stamper
stamper
40,274 corpus weight
- stepper
stepper
40,272 corpus weight
- stimulator
stimulator
40,270 corpus weight
- stopgap
stopgap
40,269 corpus weight
- Stuckey
Stuckey
40,268 corpus weight
- Subiaco
Subiaco
40,267 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “stimulator” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stimulator |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #59,731 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “stimulator” in English
Rare enough to double-check
stimulator is uncommon English at frequency #59,731 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A person, device or substance that stimulates.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for stimulator, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Latin stimulātor. The correct English form is stimulator, spelled S-T-I-M-U-L-A-T-O-R.
Definition
- 1A person, device or substance that stimulates.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin stimulātor.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).