ventriloquist
/vɛnˈtɹɪl.ə.kwɪst/
"ventriloquist" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“ventriloquist” is uncommon English (frequency #56,514 among 969 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,514
- frequency rank, English
- 969
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A person, especially an entertainer, who practices ventriloquism.
Corpus desk
Index EN-ventriloquist · ventriloquist · English
ventriloquist · rank #56,514 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,514
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 969
- PHOTO-FINISH valance
Nearest frequency peer: valance (-2 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 “ventriloquist”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- unscrew
unscrew
43,491 corpus weight
- unsub
unsub
43,490 corpus weight
- valance
valance
43,489 corpus weight
- ventriloqui…
ventriloquist
43,487 corpus weight
- vesper
vesper
43,485 corpus weight
- VFR
VFR
43,484 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “ventriloquist” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ventriloquist |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /vɛnˈtɹɪl.ə.kwɪst/ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #56,514 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “ventriloquist” in English
Rare enough to double-check
ventriloquist is uncommon English at frequency #56,514 among 969 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /vɛnˈtɹɪl.ə.kwɪst/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A person, especially an entertainer, who practices ventriloquism.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for ventriloquist in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From ventriloquy + -ist. The correct English form is ventriloquist, spelled V-E-N-T-R-I-L-O-Q-U-I-S-T.
Definition
- 1A person, especially an entertainer, who practices ventriloquism.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ventriloquist appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Most ridiculous is the discomfiture which attends the opponents of predication, who, like the ventriloquist Eurycles, have the voice that answers them in their own breast.
"Oh, I am a ventriloquist," said the little man. "I can throw the sound of my voice wherever I wish, so that you thought it was coming out of the Head. […]"
Etymology
From ventriloquy + -ist.
Synonyms
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).