white witch
"white-witch" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“white witch” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A witch who practises white magic.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | white witch |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “white witch” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
white witch is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A witch who practises white magic.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for white witch, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is white witch, spelled W-H-I-T-E- -W-I-T-C-H.
Definition
- 1A witch who practises white magic.
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.
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Using “white witch”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is W-H-I-T-E- -W-I-T-C-H - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.