water drinker
"water-drinker" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“water drinker” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Someone who drinks water, especially in preference to alcoholic drinks; a teetotaler.
Corpus desk
Index EN-water-drinker · water drinker · English
water drinker · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "W" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | water drinker |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “water drinker” in English
Rare enough to double-check
water drinker is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for water drinker in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is water drinker, spelled W-A-T-E-R- -D-R-I-N-K-E-R.
Definition
- 1Someone who drinks water, especially in preference to alcoholic drinks; a teetotaler.
- 2A member of an early Christian sect which drank water instead of wine during the Eucharist.
- 3Someone who drinks the waters at a spa.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how water drinker appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Could not resist Metcalfe's fine dishes and wines. Sir Joshua began to be a water-drinker.
Ben Franklin, an American and a water drinker, found his fellow workers at Watts's printing house ‘great guzzlers of beer’ around 1725.
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.