warty
"warty" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“warty” is uncommon English (frequency #86,936 among 1,759 “W” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,936
- frequency rank, English
- 1,759
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Having warts.
Corpus desk
Index EN-warty · warty · English
warty · rank #86,936 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,936
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,759
- PHOTO-FINISH warplane
Nearest frequency peer: warplane (-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 “warty”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Wallington
Wallington
13,069 corpus weight
- warble
warble
13,068 corpus weight
- Wardlaw
Wardlaw
13,067 corpus weight
- warplane
warplane
13,066 corpus weight
- warty
warty
13,065 corpus weight
- wastebasket
wastebasket
13,063 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “warty” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | warty |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #86,936 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “warty” in English
Rare enough to double-check
warty is uncommon English at frequency #86,936 among 1,759 “W” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for warty in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English varty, equivalent to wart + -y. The correct English form is warty, spelled W-A-R-T-Y.
Definition
- 1Having warts.
- 2Similar to a wart.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how warty appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
a warty leaf
“Well that sounds like a good way; but that ain’t the way Bob Tanner done.” “No, sir, you can bet he didn’t, becuz he’s the wartiest boy in this town; and he wouldn’t have a wart on him if he’d knowed how to work spunk-water.[…]”
Etymology
From Middle English varty, equivalent to wart + -y.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).