wardrobe mistress
"wardrobe-mistress" is a 16-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“wardrobe mistress” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A woman in charge of the procurement, maintenance, and inventory of the costumes and other clothing worn by performers.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wardrobe mistress |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “wardrobe mistress” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
wardrobe mistress is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A woman in charge of the procurement, maintenance, and inventory of the costumes and other clothing worn by performers.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for wardrobe mistress, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is wardrobe mistress, spelled W-A-R-D-R-O-B-E- -M-I-S-T-R-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1A woman in charge of the procurement, maintenance, and inventory of the costumes and other clothing worn by performers.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “wardrobe mistress”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is W-A-R-D-R-O-B-E- -M-I-S-T-R-E-S-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.