wide receiver
"wide-receiver" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“wide receiver” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - An offensive football player whose position on the line of scrimmage is farthest from the ball and whose function is to principally to catch passes.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wide receiver |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “wide receiver” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for wide receiver is 13 letters long, classified as a noun. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "An offensive football player whose position on the line of scrimmage is farthest from the ball and whose function is to principally to catch passes.".
No misspelling variants are generated for wide receiver in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is wide receiver, spelled W-I-D-E- -R-E-C-E-I-V-E-R.
Definition
- 1An offensive football player whose position on the line of scrimmage is farthest from the ball and whose function is to principally to catch passes.
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 “wide receiver”
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- The one correct English spelling is W-I-D-E- -R-E-C-E-I-V-E-R - 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.