windsurfing
"windsurfing" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“windsurfing” is uncommon English (frequency #54,571 among 1,759 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,571
- frequency rank, English
- 1,759
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A marine sport in which one stands on a floating board (typically 2 - 3 meters in length) to which a sail is attached. The board is steered by tilting the sail or banking the board. Some windsurfer...
Corpus desk
Index EN-windsurfing · windsurfing · English
windsurfing · rank #54,571 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,571
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,759
- PHOTO-FINISH witney
Nearest frequency peer: witney (+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 “windsurfing”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- whizzing
whizzing
45,434 corpus weight
- wildness
wildness
45,432 corpus weight
- windsurfing
windsurfing
45,430 corpus weight
- witney
witney
45,429 corpus weight
- Worsley
Worsley
45,425 corpus weight
- wriggling
wriggling
45,424 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “windsurfing” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | windsurfing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #54,571 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “windsurfing” in English
Rare enough to double-check
windsurfing is uncommon English at frequency #54,571 among 1,759 “W” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A marine sport in which one stands on a floating board (typically 2 - 3 meters in length) to which a sail is attached. The board is steered by tilting the sail or banking the board. Some windsurfer...".
No generated misspelling entries exist for windsurfing in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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 wind + surfing. The correct English form is windsurfing, spelled W-I-N-D-S-U-R-F-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1A marine sport in which one stands on a floating board (typically 2 - 3 meters in length) to which a sail is attached. The board is steered by tilting the sail or banking the board. Some windsurfers use large waves to perform jumps and other stunts.
Etymology
From wind + surfing.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).