windfucker
/ˈwɪndfʌkə/
"windfucker" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“windfucker” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The common kestrel (Falco tinnunculus).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | windfucker |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈwɪndfʌkə/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “windfucker” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
windfucker is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈwɪndfʌkə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for windfucker, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: If the term is a compound of wind + fucker, it may preserve an old sense of fuck (“to beat, strike”) which is also found in cognates (for example, Bohuslän Swedish fokka (“to fuck; thrust, push”)) but was otherwise lost from English, and it can be compared … The correct English form is windfucker, spelled W-I-N-D-F-U-C-K-E-R.
Definition
- 1The common kestrel (Falco tinnunculus).
- 2A term of abuse.
Etymology
If the term is a compound of wind + fucker, it may preserve an old sense of fuck (“to beat, strike”) which is also found in cognates (for example, Bohuslän Swedish fokka (“to fuck; thrust, push”)) but was otherwise lost from English, and it can be compared to the regional synonym fuckwind. (Wright's English Dialect Dictionary compares fuck in the latter word to fjúka (“be driven (by the wind); fly”) instead, while Liberman says the Norse word "has no [other?] cognates anywhere in Germanic".) However, the synonym windsucker is almost as old, and was rendered in older texts as windſucker using a long s, so some scholars think windfucker is a misreading of windſucker; others think windſucker is a bowdlerization of windfucker. Compare the later term windhover and the Orkney term windcuffer. Modern attestations of the second, vulgar sense may be unrelated to the bird.
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.
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Using “windfucker”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is W-I-N-D-F-U-C-K-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈwɪndfʌkə/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.