top scorer
"top-scorer" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“top scorer” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A person who scores most or among the best in a specified league, team or game.
Corpus desk
Index EN-top-scorer · top scorer · English
top scorer · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 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 | top scorer |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “top scorer” in English
Rare enough to double-check
top scorer is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A person who scores most or among the best in a specified league, team or game.".
No misspelling variants are generated for top scorer in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is top scorer, spelled T-O-P- -S-C-O-R-E-R.
Definition
- 1A person who scores most or among the best in a specified league, team or game.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how top scorer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On our website you can keep tabs of the top scorers in Europe’s major leagues.
England's top scorers in the World Championship games were NN and MM.
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.