wayfarers
"wayfarers" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“wayfarers” is uncommon English (frequency #94,425 among 1,759 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,425
- frequency rank, English
- 1,759
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of wayfarer.
Corpus desk
Index EN-wayfarers · wayfarers · English
wayfarers · rank #94,425 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,425
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,759
- PHOTO-FINISH Weddle
Nearest frequency peer: Weddle (+2 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 “wayfarers”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- voltmeter
voltmeter
5,584 corpus weight
- wayfarers
wayfarers
5,576 corpus weight
- Weddle
Weddle
5,574 corpus weight
- wellbore
wellbore
5,572 corpus weight
- Westmore
Westmore
5,570 corpus weight
- WGS
WGS
5,569 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “wayfarers” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wayfarers |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #94,425 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “wayfarers” in English
Rare enough to double-check
wayfarers is uncommon English at frequency #94,425 among 1,759 “W” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for wayfarers, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is wayfarers, spelled W-A-Y-F-A-R-E-R-S.
Definition
- 1plural of wayfarer.
- 2A pair of Ray-Ban Wayfarer glasses.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how wayfarers appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I can see you / Your brown skin shining in the sun / You got your hair slicked back and those Wayfarers on, baby
I'm tense, my hair is slicked back. Wayfarers on, my skull is aching.
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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