struct
"struct" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“struct” is uncommon English (frequency #52,024 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,024
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A data structure, especially one that serves to group a number of fields (in contrast to an object-oriented class with methods) or one that is passed by value rather than by reference.
Corpus desk
Index EN-struct · struct · English
struct · rank #52,024 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,024
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH stringy
Nearest frequency peer: stringy (-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 “struct”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Stanislaus
Stanislaus
47,981 corpus weight
- stealer
stealer
47,980 corpus weight
- Strabo
Strabo
47,979 corpus weight
- stringy
stringy
47,978 corpus weight
- struct
struct
47,977 corpus weight
- subsonic
subsonic
47,974 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “struct” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | struct |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #52,024 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “struct” in English
Rare enough to double-check
struct is uncommon English at frequency #52,024 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A data structure, especially one that serves to group a number of fields (in contrast to an object-oriented class with methods) or one that is passed by value rather than by reference.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for struct, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Abbreviation of structure, used as a keyword in the C programming language and its descendants. The correct English form is struct, spelled S-T-R-U-C-T.
Definition
- 1A data structure, especially one that serves to group a number of fields (in contrast to an object-oriented class with methods) or one that is passed by value rather than by reference.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how struct appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Note that because structs are value types, the new operator does not work in the same way as it does for classes and other reference types.
Like most object-oriented languages, including Objective-C, Swift supports two basic object-oriented data structures: classes and structs.
Etymology
Abbreviation of structure, used as a keyword in the C programming language and its descendants.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).