warder
"warder" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“warder” is uncommon English (frequency #64,115 among 1,759 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,115
- frequency rank, English
- 1,759
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A guard, especially in a prison.
Corpus desk
Index EN-warder · warder · English
warder · rank #64,115 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,115
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,759
- PHOTO-FINISH Watterson
Nearest frequency peer: Watterson (+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 “warder”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Vyacheslav
Vyacheslav
35,889 corpus weight
- WANA
WANA
35,888 corpus weight
- warder
warder
35,886 corpus weight
- Watterson
Watterson
35,885 corpus weight
- Waynesboro
Waynesboro
35,884 corpus weight
- wearily
wearily
35,882 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “warder” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | warder |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #64,115 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “warder” in English
Rare enough to double-check
warder is uncommon English at frequency #64,115 among 1,759 “W” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for warder, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English warder, wardere, perhaps in part continuing Old English weardere (“one who holds a country; inhabitant”), from Proto-West Germanic *wardārī (“guard, follower, watchman, lookout”), equivalent to ward + -er. Cognate with Dutch waarder (“in… The correct English form is warder, spelled W-A-R-D-E-R.
Definition
- 1A guard, especially in a prison.
- 2One who or that which wards or repels.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how warder appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Kent. Mortimer, ’tis I. But hath thy portion wrought so happily? Younger Mortimer. It hath, my lord: the warders all asleep, I thank them, gave me leave to pass in peace.
Above the gloomy portal arch, / Timing his footsteps to a march, / The warder kept his guard, / Low humming, as he paced along, / Some ancient Border gathering song.
Etymology
From Middle English warder, wardere, perhaps in part continuing Old English weardere (“one who holds a country; inhabitant”), from Proto-West Germanic *wardārī (“guard, follower, watchman, lookout”), equivalent to ward + -er. Cognate with Dutch waarder (“inspector”), German Low German Wärder (“guard, watchman”), German Wärter (“guard, keeper, attendant”).
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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