waterslide

noun

"waterslide" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“waterslide” is uncommon English (frequency #75,550 among 1,759 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#75,550
frequency rank, English
1,759
“W” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative form of water slide.

Corpus desk

Index EN-waterslide · waterslide · English

waterslide · rank #75,550 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #75,550
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,759
  • PHOTO-FINISH warranting

Nearest frequency peer: warranting (-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 “waterslide”

Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter

corpus weight

What this shows Long-tail view: where “waterslide” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for waterslide
PropertyValue
Headwordwaterslide
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters10
Frequency rank#75,550
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “waterslide” in English

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right).waterslidefalls in this rarity band:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Rare peers in the same band: “warranting” (#75,549), “Walz” (#75,548), “waker” (#75,546). Among 1,759 “W” headwords, “waterslide” is #75,550. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

waterslide is uncommon English at frequency #75,550 among 1,759 “W” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative form of water slide.".

No generated misspelling entries exist for waterslide in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is waterslide, spelled W-A-T-E-R-S-L-I-D-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Alternative form of water slide.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how waterslide appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Each pays $230 a month for the crowded living space that is mostly taken up by three beds and a mattress on the floor. Ms. Silva and her roommates do most of their cooking in microwave ovens; they have wireless Internet and access to the motel pool and waterslide.
  2. "We ended up at Wet 'n' Wild on the Gold Coast and spent the next four hours hurtling down waterslides.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "waterslide"?
"waterslide" is spelled W-A-T-E-R-S-L-I-D-E.
What does "waterslide" mean?
As a noun, "waterslide" means: Alternative form of water slide.
What language does "waterslide" come from?
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Similar English words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "waterslide", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list