tightrope-walker
"tightrope-walker" is a 15-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“tightrope-walker” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative form of tightrope walker.
Corpus desk
Index EN-tightrope-walker · tightrope-walker · English
tightrope-walker · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 16 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 | tightrope-walker |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “tightrope-walker” in English
Rare enough to double-check
tightrope-walker is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative form of tightrope walker.".
No misspelling variants are generated for tightrope-walker in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is tightrope-walker, spelled T-I-G-H-T-R-O-P-E---W-A-L-K-E-R.
Definition
- 1Alternative form of tightrope walker.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tightrope-walker appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mr. Farini [i.e., William Leonard Hunt], the celebrated tightrope-walker, and rival of [Charles] Blondin, advertised that he would carry his wife across the rope stretched from one side of the ring to the other, at a height of about sixty feet, upon his back—a feat he had performed in other places.
We saw where the great tightrope-walker Karl Wallenda scaled the canyon on a tightrope back in 1970.
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.