warrant officer
"warrant-officer" is a 14-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“warrant officer” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - An officer holding rank by virtue of a warrant rather than a commission.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | warrant officer |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “warrant officer” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
warrant officer is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for warrant officer in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is warrant officer, spelled W-A-R-R-A-N-T- -O-F-F-I-C-E-R.
Definition
- 1An officer holding rank by virtue of a warrant rather than a commission.
- 2An officer assigned to execute warrants and other writs.
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 “warrant officer”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is W-A-R-R-A-N-T- -O-F-F-I-C-E-R - 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.