waker
"waker" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“waker” is uncommon English (frequency #75,546 among 1,759 “W” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,546
- frequency rank, English
- 1,759
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Watchful; vigilant; alert.
Corpus desk
Index EN-waker · waker · English
waker · rank #75,546 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,546
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,759
- PHOTO-FINISH vore
Nearest frequency peer: vore (-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 “waker”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- voilà
voilà
24,458 corpus weight
- vore
vore
24,456 corpus weight
- waker
waker
24,455 corpus weight
- Walz
Walz
24,453 corpus weight
- warranting
warranting
24,452 corpus weight
- waterslide
waterslide
24,451 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “waker” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | waker |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #75,546 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “waker” in English
Rare enough to double-check
waker is uncommon English at frequency #75,546 among 1,759 “W” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Watchful; vigilant; alert.".
waker doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English wakyr, from Old English wacor, waccor (“watchful, vigilant”), from Proto-West Germanic *wakr, from Proto-Germanic *wakraz (“awake, watchful”), equivalent to wake + -er. Cognate with Scots wakir (“watchful”), Dutch wakker (“awake”), Germa… The correct English form is waker, spelled W-A-K-E-R.
Definition
- 1Watchful; vigilant; alert.
Etymology
From Middle English wakyr, from Old English wacor, waccor (“watchful, vigilant”), from Proto-West Germanic *wakr, from Proto-Germanic *wakraz (“awake, watchful”), equivalent to wake + -er. Cognate with Scots wakir (“watchful”), Dutch wakker (“awake”), German wacker (“awake, alert, capable, brave”), Swedish vacker (“wakeful, watchful, fair, comely”). Also precisely cognate with Sanskrit वज्र (vájra, “adamantine”), both ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wóǵ-ros (“strong, lively”), and therefore a doublet of vajra. Further related through the same Indo-European root to vigil, vigor, and vegetable.
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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