torturer
"torturer" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“torturer” is uncommon English (frequency #66,354 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,354
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Someone who tortures.
Corpus desk
Index EN-torturer · torturer · English
torturer · rank #66,354 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,354
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH tormentor
Nearest frequency peer: tormentor (-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 “torturer”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Toba
Toba
33,652 corpus weight
- toboggan
toboggan
33,651 corpus weight
- toho
toho
33,650 corpus weight
- tormentor
tormentor
33,648 corpus weight
- torturer
torturer
33,647 corpus weight
- towpath
towpath
33,645 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “torturer” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | torturer |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #66,354 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “torturer” in English
Rare enough to double-check
torturer is uncommon English at frequency #66,354 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Someone who tortures.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for torturer, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From torture + -er. The correct English form is torturer, spelled T-O-R-T-U-R-E-R.
Definition
- 1Someone who tortures.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how torturer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I play the torturer by ſmall and ſmall / To lengthen out the worſt that muſt be ſpoken: […]
My destruction might indeed arrive a few months sooner; but if my torturer should suspect that I postponed it, influenced by his menaces, he would surely find other, and perhaps more dreadful means of revenge.
Etymology
From torture + -er.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).