sympathiser
"sympathiser" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sympathiser” is uncommon English (frequency #80,938 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,938
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of sympathizer.
Corpus desk
Index EN-sympathiser · sympathiser · English
sympathiser · rank #80,938 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,938
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Sushil
Nearest frequency peer: Sushil (-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 “sympathiser”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- substantiat…
substantiation
19,071 corpus weight
- summerhouse
summerhouse
19,068 corpus weight
- Sushil
Sushil
19,065 corpus weight
- sympathiser
sympathiser
19,063 corpus weight
- tagger
tagger
19,058 corpus weight
- Taichung
Taichung
19,057 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “sympathiser” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sympathiser |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #80,938 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “sympathiser” in English
Rare enough to double-check
sympathiser is uncommon English at frequency #80,938 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of sympathizer.".
No misspelling variants are generated for sympathiser in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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: From sympathise + -er. The correct English form is sympathiser, spelled S-Y-M-P-A-T-H-I-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of sympathizer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sympathiser appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
‘[…] And I tell you that the slightest suspicion of my loyalty could be ruin for me, ruin! If it were ever breathed that I were even a sympathiser with this rebellion, there iss an end of me.’
The Ardent Spirit pupils now belong to him alone and through them he’ll set his plans in motion, moulding them to be warrior saints, brilliant in deceit against the West and its sympathisers here at home.
Etymology
From sympathise + -er.
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 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).