tennis player
"tennis-player" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“tennis player” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A person who plays tennis. (This entry is a translation hub.)
Corpus desk
Index EN-tennis-player · tennis player · English
tennis player · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "T" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tennis player |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “tennis player” in English
Rare enough to double-check
tennis player is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A person who plays tennis. (This entry is a translation hub.)".
tennis player doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is tennis player, spelled T-E-N-N-I-S- -P-L-A-Y-E-R.
Definition
- 1A person who plays tennis. (This entry is a translation hub.)
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tennis player appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
By way of analogy, let us consider what it takes to be a good or bad tennis player. An extremely good tennis player must possess a mastery of the many different activities that are part of the game—serving, returning, and running around the court […]
Synonyms
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.