swingman
"swingman" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“swingman” is uncommon English (frequency #76,374 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,374
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A player who can swing between two different positions, often the small forward and shooting guard positions in basketball.
Corpus desk
Index EN-swingman · swingman · English
swingman · rank #76,374 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,374
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH sweeting
Nearest frequency peer: sweeting (-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 “swingman”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Sveta
Sveta
23,631 corpus weight
- swaddle
swaddle
23,630 corpus weight
- sweeting
sweeting
23,628 corpus weight
- swingman
swingman
23,627 corpus weight
- syndicalist
syndicalist
23,625 corpus weight
- Tabriz
Tabriz
23,622 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “swingman” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | swingman |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #76,374 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “swingman” in English
Rare enough to double-check
swingman is uncommon English at frequency #76,374 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A player who can swing between two different positions, often the small forward and shooting guard positions in basketball.".
No misspelling variants are generated for swingman in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From swing + man. The correct English form is swingman, spelled S-W-I-N-G-M-A-N.
Definition
- 1A player who can swing between two different positions, often the small forward and shooting guard positions in basketball.
Etymology
From swing + man.
Synonyms
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).