windbreaker
/ˈwɪndbɹeɪkə(ɹ)/
"windbreaker" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“windbreaker” is uncommon English (frequency #67,957 among 1,759 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,957
- frequency rank, English
- 1,759
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A thin outer coat designed to resist wind chill and light rain.
Corpus desk
Index EN-windbreaker · windbreaker · English
windbreaker · rank #67,957 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,957
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,759
- PHOTO-FINISH Winstone
Nearest frequency peer: Winstone (+1 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 “windbreaker”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- whinging
whinging
32,047 corpus weight
- Whitelaw
Whitelaw
32,046 corpus weight
- windbreaker
windbreaker
32,044 corpus weight
- Winstone
Winstone
32,043 corpus weight
- wonk
wonk
32,040 corpus weight
- workbooks
workbooks
32,038 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “windbreaker” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | windbreaker |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈwɪndbɹeɪkə(ɹ)/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #67,957 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “windbreaker” in English
Rare enough to double-check
windbreaker is uncommon English at frequency #67,957 among 1,759 “W” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈwɪndbɹeɪkə(ɹ)/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A thin outer coat designed to resist wind chill and light rain.".
windbreaker has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From a trademark of the John Rissman company; wind + breaker. The correct English form is windbreaker, spelled W-I-N-D-B-R-E-A-K-E-R.
Definition
- 1A thin outer coat designed to resist wind chill and light rain.
Etymology
From a trademark of the John Rissman company; wind + breaker.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).