stinkers
"stinkers" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“stinkers” is uncommon English (frequency #92,108 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,108
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of stinker
Corpus desk
Index EN-stinkers · stinkers · English
stinkers · rank #92,108 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,108
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Stevo
Nearest frequency peer: Stevo (-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 “stinkers”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- sprit
sprit
7,900 corpus weight
- Stevo
Stevo
7,895 corpus weight
- stinkers
stinkers
7,893 corpus weight
- storie
storie
7,891 corpus weight
- stovepipe
stovepipe
7,890 corpus weight
- stridently
stridently
7,888 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “stinkers” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stinkers |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #92,108 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “stinkers” in English
Rare enough to double-check
stinkers is uncommon English at frequency #92,108 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of stinker".
No generated misspelling entries exist for stinkers in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is stinkers, spelled S-T-I-N-K-E-R-S.
Definition
- 1plural of stinker
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how stinkers appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Years ago, when striplings, he and I had done a stretch together at Malvern House, Bramley-on-Sea, the preparatory school conducted by that prince of stinkers, Aubrey Upjohn MA, and had frequently stood side by side in the Upjohn study awaiting the receipt of six of the juiciest from a cane of the type that biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder…
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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