whoreman
"whoreman" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“whoreman” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An adulterer
Corpus desk
Index EN-whoreman · whoreman · English
whoreman · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 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 | whoreman |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “whoreman” in English
Rare enough to double-check
whoreman is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for whoreman, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English horeman, equivalent to whore + man. Compare Danish horkarl (“whoremonger”), Swedish horkarl (“whoremaster; fornicator”). The correct English form is whoreman, spelled W-H-O-R-E-M-A-N.
Definition
- 1An adulterer
- 2A pimp
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how whoreman appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Charlie Leamus, one of the boys l'd fooled with, told me Pierson was really a whoreman and would be peddling the girls in the wagon after dark, out at Jackson's Hollow, a mile or so out of town.
Etymology
From Middle English horeman, equivalent to whore + man. Compare Danish horkarl (“whoremonger”), Swedish horkarl (“whoremaster; fornicator”).
Synonyms
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.