tattooist
"tattooist" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“tattooist” is uncommon English (frequency #96,550 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,550
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Someone who draws or inks tattoos on people.
Corpus desk
Index EN-tattooist · tattooist · English
tattooist · rank #96,550 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,550
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH Tates
Nearest frequency peer: Tates (-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 “tattooist”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- tako
tako
3,457 corpus weight
- talaq
talaq
3,456 corpus weight
- Tampines
Tampines
3,454 corpus weight
- Tates
Tates
3,452 corpus weight
- tattooist
tattooist
3,451 corpus weight
- Teeters
Teeters
3,446 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “tattooist” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tattooist |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #96,550 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “tattooist” in English
Rare enough to double-check
tattooist is uncommon English at frequency #96,550 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Someone who draws or inks tattoos on people.".
No misspelling variants are generated for tattooist in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From tattoo + -ist. The correct English form is tattooist, spelled T-A-T-T-O-O-I-S-T.
Definition
- 1Someone who draws or inks tattoos on people.
Etymology
From tattoo + -ist.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).