windowsill
/ˈwɪndəʊˌsɪl/
"windowsill" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“windowsill” is uncommon English (frequency #52,722 among 1,759 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,722
- frequency rank, English
- 1,759
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The horizontal member protruding from the base of a window frame.
Corpus desk
Index EN-windowsill · windowsill · English
windowsill · rank #52,722 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,722
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,759
- PHOTO-FINISH wifes
Nearest frequency peer: wifes (-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 “windowsill”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- westwards
westwards
47,283 corpus weight
- wifes
wifes
47,280 corpus weight
- windowsill
windowsill
47,279 corpus weight
- wining
wining
47,278 corpus weight
- wiry
wiry
47,277 corpus weight
- Wittenberg
Wittenberg
47,276 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “windowsill” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | windowsill |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈwɪndəʊˌsɪl/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #52,722 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “windowsill” in English
Rare enough to double-check
windowsill is uncommon English at frequency #52,722 among 1,759 “W” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈwɪndəʊˌsɪl/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The horizontal member protruding from the base of a window frame.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for windowsill in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From window + sill. The correct English form is windowsill, spelled W-I-N-D-O-W-S-I-L-L.
Definition
- 1The horizontal member protruding from the base of a window frame.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how windowsill appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
An upscale version of this tried and true method of providing windowsill humidity is the use of plastic 'egg crating' instead of gravel.
You could tell summer was coming because people were drinking on the street, searching for spaces on the windowsills of the pub to balance their beerglasses.
Etymology
From window + sill.
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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