windchill
"windchill" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“windchill” is uncommon English (frequency #85,946 among 1,759 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,946
- frequency rank, English
- 1,759
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative form of wind chill.
Corpus desk
Index EN-windchill · windchill · English
windchill · rank #85,946 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,946
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,759
- PHOTO-FINISH wholemeal
Nearest frequency peer: wholemeal (-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 “windchill”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Whittlesey
Whittlesey
14,057 corpus weight
- wholemeal
wholemeal
14,056 corpus weight
- windchill
windchill
14,055 corpus weight
- woa
woa
14,054 corpus weight
- womenfolk
womenfolk
14,053 corpus weight
- wonderboy
wonderboy
14,052 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “windchill” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | windchill |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #85,946 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “windchill” in English
Rare enough to double-check
windchill is uncommon English at frequency #85,946 among 1,759 “W” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative form of wind chill.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for windchill, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is windchill, spelled W-I-N-D-C-H-I-L-L.
Definition
- 1Alternative form of wind chill.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how windchill appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The windchill enters my body, slips under my shirt right to my belly button.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).