waterslide
"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
- voilà
voilà
24,458 corpus weight
- vore
vore
24,456 corpus weight
- waker
waker
24,455 corpus weight
- Walz
Walz
24,453 corpus weight
- warranting
warranting
24,452 corpus weight
- waterslide
waterslide
24,451 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “waterslide” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | waterslide |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #75,550 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “waterslide” in English
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
- 1Alternative form of water slide.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how waterslide appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
"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.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).