wide receiver
"wide-receiver" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“wide receiver” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 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.
Corpus desk
Index EN-wide-receiver · wide receiver · English
wide receiver · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 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 | wide receiver |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “wide receiver” in English
Rare enough to double-check
wide receiver is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how wide receiver appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
All season, the Chiefs have struggled on offense, in particular in the pass catching department. On multiple occasions throughout the regular season, Mahomes was burned by mental miscues from his wide receivers which cost the Chiefs wins.
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.